contributor

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Recent Examples of contributor Small, selected 48th overall in the 2025 NBA Draft, has emerged as a possible early-season contributor after a strong preseason showing. Grant Afseth, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025 With Dowdle and Hubbard dominating the carries out of the backfield, Etienne’s work in the return game is paramount to his trajectory as a contributor. Charlotte Observer, 19 Oct. 2025 He's published cookbooks and food histories, and he's been a contributor to the New York Times, the now-shuttered magazine, Gourmet, the Food Network, and NPR's Weekend All Things Considered. NPR, 14 Oct. 2025 That’s the most for a title in a single week since official streams became the metric’s sole contributor to the Hot 100 in September 2020. Greg Evans, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for contributor
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Noun
  • Beach is also working with donors who, so far, have given $10,000 for miscellaneous materials like the safe sleep car kits.
    Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The addition is one of the biggest changes to the presidential residence in decades, and is being financed by private donors.
    Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The species was named in honor of Johanna Rebecca Senckenberg (1716–1743), a benefactor whose support for science and medicine helped lay the foundation for the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The second-most popular reason, at 28%, was not having a relationship with their benefactors’ advisor.
    Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Not only that, but writing about it, sharing it with us, also transfers onto Davis the role of gift giver.
    David L. Ulin, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Two-thirds of givers admit to procrastinating family wealth-transfer conversations, according to a national RBC Wealth Management survey.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Couldn’t the altruists have left well enough alone?
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • There are philanthropists of various kinds throughout the works of Dickens, but in Bleak House, there is a prototypical effective altruist in Mrs. Jellyby.
    Ben Brooks July 17, Literary Hub, 17 July 2025
Noun
  • That’s the throughline that will let Kalema continue his journey, not the fairy godmother.
    Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Burnett, functioning as a sort of fairy godmother from comedy history, runs into her there and offers a pep talk.
    Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While Paytas’ Big Broadway Dream quickly sold out the St. James Theatre, donations of $5 to $25 to the Fund enters donators will be entered for a chance to win a front row pair of tickets.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The new group is actively looking for volunteers, members and donators, SAMENA Collective Membership Chairman Wali Qazizada said.
    Annika Bahnsen, Orange County Register, 19 July 2024

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