benefactress

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Recent Examples of benefactress And how much, or how little, does Belinda know about what happened to her would-be benefactress? Dan Heching, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025 Breaking down the differences between playing the ruthless crime lord and the polished benefactress, Gasćon also noted that the role of Emilia was deceptively physical. Elaina Patton, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024 Instead, each week will see the top two queens will earn benefactress badges. Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 May 2024 Ross resigned, at Stanford’s behest and amid great scandal, forcing Jordan to take the blame for the decision and defend his benefactress in order to save the university’s reputation. Maia Silber, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022 She’s reunited with the local company’s benefactress, and her own first mentor and supporter, Winnie Flato. Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 18 June 2021 Christian Temperance Union leader Frances Willard and millionaire benefactress Alva Belmont. Lila Thulin, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2020 Ragan had served as benefactress to his predecessor, and her money helped make Rosenberger the youngest House speaker in the nation. Chrissie Thompson, Cincinnati.com, 9 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for benefactress
Noun
  • Signed last week, on the same day that the Department of Justice indicted James Comey, it is designed to facilitate the transfer of a social-media platform with a hundred and seventy million American users to a consortium that features several of the President’s political and financial benefactors.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • That means, for tax purposes, the value of the home resets to its market value on the date your benefactor died.
    Steve Hruby, Cincinnati Enquirer, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • On Monday, the Catholic community honored Cuba’s patroness, Our Lady of Charity, and marked the 25th anniversary of the Miami shrine’s national designation through a day of celebratory events.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Surely, there have to be other things a wealthy patroness would want to do with her time.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • More sizable contributions can score donors unseen content, signed posters, and even things like an associate producer credit and invitations to an in-person screening in Los Angeles.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The proof-of-concept study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, involved taking the nucleus, the part of the cell that contains most of its genetic information, from an ordinary human skin cell and transplanting it into a donor egg stripped of its own nucleus.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That child turned into a Guinea worm warrior, now turned into a philanthropist and an activist amongst his people, who is teaching underprivileged communities in South Sudan and building schools.
    Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Bergen went on to wed philanthropist Marshall Rose, who died in February 2025.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Benefactress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/benefactress. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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