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several corporations bankrolled the Broadway musical
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Recent Examples of bankrolling
Tom Steyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2026
As recently as this summer, Robinson boasted about his role in co-creating, bankrolling, and starring in Legacy of Lies, an action movie headlined by John Wick martial artist Scott Adkins.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
Carlos Alvarado Quesada, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2026
Meantime the future beyond this year of Tour rival LIV Golf is in jeopardy as doubts arise whether the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia will continue bankrolling the league.
—Greg Cote
april 19, Miami Herald, 19 Apr. 2026
In his first mission as 007, Bond engages in a high-stakes poker game with bankrupt terrorist Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) but falls tragically in love with Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), the British treasury agent bankrolling his game.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Mar. 2026
However, remote county political parties, hundreds of miles from where races are taking place, might be the ones bankrolling the ads and phone calls that get candidates in front of constituents.
—Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 29 Mar. 2026
Not everyone agrees the government should be in the business of bankrolling early-stage firms.
—Noelle Harff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2026
The public was bankrolling much of it via a Board of Supervisors decree to move taxpayer funds to the museum but reacted to the design with a shrug at best—plenty thought the undulated single-floor space looked like an amoeba oozing over Wilshire.
—Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 6 Mar. 2026
In Illinois, Meta is bankrolling $750,000 for a new super PAC, Making Our Tomorrow, according to state campaign disclosure reports.
—Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
The American labor force is shrinking and increasingly responsible for bankrolling the largest and wealthiest generation to ever age into retirement.
—Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026
Noun
Just last week, the utilities spent $10 million against me, joining Big Oil’s bankrolling of my opponents.
—Tom Steyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2026
As recently as this summer, Robinson boasted about his role in co-creating, bankrolling, and starring in Legacy of Lies, an action movie headlined by John Wick martial artist Scott Adkins.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
Governments spend more than $700 billion a year subsidising agriculture, much of it bankrolling the very fertilizers and fossil fuel inputs that make farming so exposed to price shocks.
—Carlos Alvarado Quesada, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2026
Meantime the future beyond this year of Tour rival LIV Golf is in jeopardy as doubts arise whether the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia will continue bankrolling the league.
—Greg Cote
april 19, Miami Herald, 19 Apr. 2026
In his first mission as 007, Bond engages in a high-stakes poker game with bankrupt terrorist Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) but falls tragically in love with Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), the British treasury agent bankrolling his game.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Mar. 2026
However, remote county political parties, hundreds of miles from where races are taking place, might be the ones bankrolling the ads and phone calls that get candidates in front of constituents.
—Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 29 Mar. 2026
Not everyone agrees the government should be in the business of bankrolling early-stage firms.
—Noelle Harff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2026
The public was bankrolling much of it via a Board of Supervisors decree to move taxpayer funds to the museum but reacted to the design with a shrug at best—plenty thought the undulated single-floor space looked like an amoeba oozing over Wilshire.
—Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 6 Mar. 2026
In Illinois, Meta is bankrolling $750,000 for a new super PAC, Making Our Tomorrow, according to state campaign disclosure reports.
—Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
The American labor force is shrinking and increasingly responsible for bankrolling the largest and wealthiest generation to ever age into retirement.
—Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bankrolling
Noun
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In light of federal immigration crackdowns, funding cuts and rollbacks to civil rights protections and oversight, how can California better serve vulnerable student populations, including those who are immigrants, are LGBTQ+ and have disabilities?—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 May 2026
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The Minnesota House of Representatives passed a bill Monday that includes $1 million in funding to solve nonfatal shootings.—
Mara H. Gottfried,
Twin Cities,
7 May 2026
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When a bill to pour billions into financing Israel’s military came across Congressman Kweisi Mfume’s desk, Israel’s military offensive in Gaza had claimed a death toll of over 70,000 people, as reported by local health authorities and acknowledged as broadly accurate by the Israeli military.—
Mark Conway,
Baltimore Sun,
9 May 2026
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The profits from these amateur community shows funded the very infrastructure of Jim Crow America, from paving streets, financing university buildings, and building the hospitals and schools that Black citizens were systematically excluded from using.—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
8 May 2026
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San Francisco—which adopted Housing First in 2009—is illustrative, with 60 percent of its massive homelessness budget being spent on housing subsidies for the formerly homeless.—
Christopher Calton,
Oc Register,
8 May 2026
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Other regions are offering subsidies to renovate, or even giving properties away for free, provided buyers commit to living in them.—
Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
8 May 2026
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In recent years, Cuba’s government has talked about subsidizing people in need instead of goods.—
Danica Coto,
Fortune,
3 May 2026
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China has been directly subsidizing its green industries to dominate those in Europe and the US (above and beyond the kinds of consumer-facing incentives that the EU and, until recently, the US, also provide).—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
1 May 2026
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This investment will not only expand educational opportunities for generations of students but also bolster a pooled endowment fund for all 37 of our member institutions.—
Ed Smith-Lewis,
Fortune,
2 May 2026
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Botstein did not mention Epstein by name in his retirement announcement, which touted his role in Bard’s $1 billion endowment campaign, which was completed in January.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
1 May 2026
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“Bankrolling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bankrolling. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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