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Recent Examples of contributor All opinions expressed by the CNBC Pro contributors are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of CNBC, NBC UNIVERSAL, their parent company or affiliates, and may have been previously disseminated by them on television, radio, internet or another medium. Carter Braxton Worth, CNBC, 27 June 2025 The Nuggets needed some measure of balance — a fresh contributor to the brain trust with zero attachment to the ideas of the previous regime. Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 27 June 2025 And those two will still be unavailable while all key Mercury stars and contributors are fully rested. Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 26 June 2025 Every product was determined to have excelled in each category by our editorial team, which is composed of in-house writers and editors as well as contributors—along with special consideration from doctors and dermatologists. Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 14 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for contributor
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Noun
  • The power conferences are creating a new enforcement agency to monitor payments to athletes from donors and collectives.
    Taylor Lyons, Baltimore Sun, 30 June 2025
  • Last Friday, an anonymous donor left a box containing a large fan by the front door of the First Baptist Church of Park Forest.
    Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Yale Divinity School’s curriculum often prioritizes social justice over biblical exegesis, a shift that would likely dismay its benefactors.
    The Rev. Jake Dell, Hartford Courant, 7 July 2025
  • The fact that their benefactor — and half-brother — was a lawyer and Congressman may have shielded them from a resurgent Ku Klux Klan and some of the worst treatment legalized by the Black Codes.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Bezos is one of America’s top givers by dollar amount, per Forbes’ calculations, having given away more than $4 billion during his lifetime to climate, housing and education causes, as well as the Smithsonian and the Obama Foundation.
    Phoebe Liu, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Besides the legal issues of accepting this gift, the giver of the gift is problematic.
    Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • Funders who are very interested in the potential of data to increase impact, such as effective altruists, philanthropists who emphasize outcomes, and some large foundations, may be willing to bear the costs so others don’t have to.
    George E. Mitchell, The Conversation, 20 June 2025
  • Education is the cause most favored by our altruists.
    Rana Wehbe Watson, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • To find a fairy godmother like that would be great.
    David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 27 June 2025
  • But nothing gives this adaptation — which otherwise might have easily been forgotten as a quirky '90s made-for-TV one-off — so much fairy dust as a glimmering Whitney Houston playing the best-ever fairy godmother.
    EW.com, EW.com, 4 Mar. 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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