contributor

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Recent Examples of contributor Ari Shapiro, the longtime host of NPR‘s All Things Considered who departed the network last year, has joined CNN as a contributor. Ted Johnson, Deadline, 15 Apr. 2026 Leavitt, who was partnered with Ballas on Dancing With the Stars and starred on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, had already been a box big office contributor for the show. Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 14 Apr. 2026 Collier Schorr Novelist and Art in America contributor Lucy Ives won in the fiction category. Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 14 Apr. 2026 Makary was a former medical contributor at the network. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for contributor
Recent Examples of Synonyms for contributor
Noun
  • The university had set out to break the record in celebration of its milestone birthday and encouraged its students, faculty, staff, alumni, donors and community members to don dinosaur costumes to participate in its Rex's Jurassic Jamboree.
    Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Kennedy Center leadership is conducting tours with congressional staff and donors to demonstrate that the building needs major renovation due to water damage, HVAC issues and deteriorating infrastructure.
    Steven Sloan, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The benefactors, on the other hand, wore their wealth with ease.
    Douglas Stuart, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Some of Duchamp’s Readymades were produced as gifts for, or with input from, his chief benefactor, Walter Arensberg, a steel-fortune heir.
    Howard Halle, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Research shows the powerful effect of kindness on the giver and many others.
    Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Here and in works throughout the show, symbols and inscriptions refer both to gift giver and gift recipient, bridging the distance between Europe and the Holy Land.
    Sarah Kozlowski, Dallas Morning News, 21 Mar. 2026
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
  • French has become something of a fairy godmother to the group.
    Tony Bravo, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Houston and Goldberg costarred, respectively, as the fairy godmother and the queen.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • That’s the gold standard of cancer designations that allows patients and donators alike to understand Sylvester’s standards.
    Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2026
  • 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

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“Contributor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contributor. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.

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