BESTOWERS Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

bestowers

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plural of bestower

as in givers

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The world’s largest givers This week, Bridgespan also updated its rankings of the world’s largest corporate and institutional givers, based on average annual giving between 2020 and 2024.

— Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2026
There’s also a gap between how givers and recipients think about AI involvement.

— Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of givers

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Democratic divide As Republican donors open their wallets, some of Democrats’ biggest benefactors are missing from the DNC’s donor rolls.

— Luke Fountain, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
Harvard and its peer institutions won’t suddenly stop caring about their largest benefactors.

— Jayson Weingarten, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of benefactors

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Storybook performances are the heartbeat of March Madness, but unlike the actual Cinderella, college basketball teams with aspirations to make a splash in the Big Dance don’t have fairy godmothers to cover the costs of running a basketball program.

— Ralph D. Russo, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
And with that, the modern Cinderella story continues—proving that sometimes, magic is less about fairy godmothers and more about persistence, pivots, and the courage to start building your own AI Agent.

— Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025

Definition of fairy godmothers

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The woman understood from her hasty reading that perhaps all miracles could be attributed to saints and angels if they were experienced by a believer.

— Ellen O’Connell Whittet, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026
Every nightfall is different — different seasonal colors, angels, weather, celestial glows, grasses and shadows.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Oct. 2026

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