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Recent Examples of contributor Stress Stress is a significant contributor to or cause of frequent tension headaches. Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 8 Sep. 2025 Hussain has also been a contributor to The Times since 2015. Jane Lacroix, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025 Trump has vehemently denied that his tariff agenda is a contributor to those challenges. Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 2 Sep. 2025 When the Pittsburgh Steelers selected running back Kaleb Johnson in the third round of the NFL Draft back in April, just about everyone expected Johnson to be an immediate contributor. Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for contributor
Recent Examples of Synonyms for contributor
Noun
  • This story was produced with financial support from Trish and Dan Bell and from donors comprising the South Florida Jewish and Muslim Communities, including Khalid and Diana Mirza, in partnership with Journalism Funding Partners.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Billionaire mega-donors and their puppet politicians have taken over our state and our country, rigging the system for themselves.
    Olivia Osteen, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • With no ground to generate revenue, and limited gate receipts, Enfield FC rely on benefactors putting large sums of money into the club — not uncommon at this level.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The cartoon continues to relish poking its corporate benefactors.
    Nick Marx, The Conversation, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Three-quarters of Forbes 400 listees have given less than 5% of their fortunes to charity, though some top givers such as George Soros and Warren Buffett have given away more than 20%.
    Forbes Press Releases, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This includes handwritten thank-you cards instead of my usual texts of gratitude upon receiving a gift when the giver is not present.
    Judith Martin, Mercury News, 6 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
  • The relationships of House of McQueen’s hero to his mother (Emily Skinner) and his early disciple, patron, and confidante, the great fashion-world fairy godmother Isabella Blow (Catherine LeFrere), are sketched with similar thinness.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Get your face painted by the fairy godmother, and watch Merlin's magic show.
    Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 25 July 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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