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Recent Examples of contributor Our food systems are a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and pollution around the world – from growing to packaging, distribution and disposal. Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025 The White House has defended Homan, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement director and Fox News contributor who now oversees mass deportation operations. Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 24 Sep. 2025 The Florida Panthers acquired the defenseman at the trade deadline, getting him from the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for goaltender Spencer Knight and a first-round pick, and knew Jones was going to be a key contributor on what eventually became a second consecutive Stanley Cup championship run. Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025 His insights have been shared in contributor pieces for Forbes, Entrepreneur, and USA Today. Matt Emma, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for contributor
Recent Examples of Synonyms for contributor
Noun
  • More sizable contributions can score donors unseen content, signed posters, and even things like an associate producer credit and invitations to an in-person screening in Los Angeles.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The proof-of-concept study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, involved taking the nucleus, the part of the cell that contains most of its genetic information, from an ordinary human skin cell and transplanting it into a donor egg stripped of its own nucleus.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Signed last week, on the same day that the Department of Justice indicted James Comey, it is designed to facilitate the transfer of a social-media platform with a hundred and seventy million American users to a consortium that features several of the President’s political and financial benefactors.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • That means, for tax purposes, the value of the home resets to its market value on the date your benefactor died.
    Steve Hruby, Cincinnati Enquirer, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • 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
  • 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
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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