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Recent Examples of contributor This recipe from a contributor's grandmother calls for the addition of shredded chicken for an even more traditional flavor. Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2025 As the White House had announced, Amazon was a major corporate contributor in helping to defray those costs. David Folkenflik, NPR, 28 Oct. 2025 Boogie Basham, who is on the practice squad, is a replacement level contributor at best. Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 28 Oct. 2025 Blair’s a contributor to The New York Times, Vogue, Esquire, This American Life, and elsewhere. Blair Braverman, Outside, 28 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for contributor
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Noun
  • Advertisement Diller, who is worth $5 billion, has been a longtime Democratic donor and endorsed Cuomo in March this year.
    Rebecca Schneid, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Sherrill has drawn contributions from industry figures including Jeff Bewkes and the last-minute endorsement of Stephen Colbert, as well as other donors including Melinda Gates and Reid Hoffman.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • And freed from the client-benefactor relationship that aid engenders, African nations are insisting upon local processing and refining to retain more of the downstream benefits.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Over Hanai’s objections, the House of Tanba-ya’s corporate benefactor (Kyusaku Shimada) books them into a large theater, and soon their onnagata-duo novelty has given them a kind of boy-band heartthrob popularity.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • These and other sequences, handled with anthropological curiosity rather than voyeurism, probe the shifting balance of power between giver and taker.
    Catherine Bray, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Daedone persuaded the swelling ranks of OM enthusiasts, givers and receivers alike, to join an experiment in communal living, gradually parting them from their wealth and autonomy.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 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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