1
as in funded
to provide money for
a local business kindly financed the high school band's trip to New York City
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as in endowed
to furnish (as an institution) with a regular source of income
established a fund to finance a visiting lecturer position at the local college
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Recent Examples of financed
Pic is financed by exec producer Michael Farrell out of the UK where post has now started.
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Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 2 Mar. 2026
Around the same time, an infrastructure program financed in part by the World Bank promoted domestic migration to the Amazon, including the paving of a highway across the state.
—ABC News, 27 Feb. 2026
Major infrastructure projects often require a one-time funding source that cannot be absorbed within annual budgets and must be responsibly financed over time.
—Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 26 Feb. 2026
If top-level soccer is now played by something like rootless cosmopolitans, it’s financed by billionaires who are no longer primarily European.
—Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
As automobile production transformed Detroit into one of the wealthiest industrial cities in the country, fortunes made in manufacturing financed the construction of grand estates throughout neighborhoods such as Palmer Woods and Boston-Edison.
—Brendel Clark, Freep.com, 21 Feb. 2026
Social Security is financed by a payroll tax paid for by employers and employees.
—Asher Notheis, The Washington Examiner, 21 Feb. 2026
The project was financed by SolTerra, a sustainable urban development company that focuses on renewable facilities.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2026
It's jointly financed by the federal government (65%) and states (35%).
—Julie Appleby, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 2 Mar. 2026
Around the same time, an infrastructure program financed in part by the World Bank promoted domestic migration to the Amazon, including the paving of a highway across the state.
—ABC News, 27 Feb. 2026
Major infrastructure projects often require a one-time funding source that cannot be absorbed within annual budgets and must be responsibly financed over time.
—Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 26 Feb. 2026
If top-level soccer is now played by something like rootless cosmopolitans, it’s financed by billionaires who are no longer primarily European.
—Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
As automobile production transformed Detroit into one of the wealthiest industrial cities in the country, fortunes made in manufacturing financed the construction of grand estates throughout neighborhoods such as Palmer Woods and Boston-Edison.
—Brendel Clark, Freep.com, 21 Feb. 2026
Social Security is financed by a payroll tax paid for by employers and employees.
—Asher Notheis, The Washington Examiner, 21 Feb. 2026
The project was financed by SolTerra, a sustainable urban development company that focuses on renewable facilities.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2026
It's jointly financed by the federal government (65%) and states (35%).
—Julie Appleby, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for financed
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Rising defense outlays have funded the expansion of fighter jets, aircraft carriers, drones and submarines amid Xi’s push to modernize the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
5 Mar. 2026
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The private credit specialist will instead switch to periodic payouts funded by asset sales, earnings and other strategic deals.—
Hugh Leask,
CNBC,
5 Mar. 2026
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It is endowed with some of the richest mineral supplies on earth, including some 70 percent of the world’s cobalt, as well as huge reserves of copper and a Mendeleevian constellation of other metals.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
Vanity Fair,
20 Feb. 2026
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And Salieri seems more of hybrid creature, as though a villain out of Christopher Marlowe had suddenly been endowed with Shakespearean self-awareness.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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At some point, again, Ubers used to be subsidized.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
3 Mar. 2026
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This was subsidized housing for the working class, with buildings arrayed in an irregular pattern bordered by bits of landscaped greenery.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Financed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/financed. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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