financed

past tense of finance

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Recent Examples of financed Haiti financed the payments from French banks, and did not finish paying the associated interest on the debt until 1947. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2026 The new building, estimated to cost about $46 million, would be financed using dollars set aside for the project and from private donors, according to KCKPL. Sofi Zeman july 31, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026 The solo films are Columbia Pictures releases financed by Sony, with Marvel Studios acting as a creative manager, and handling MCU integration in the crossover films. James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2026 That has cut into sales of items like autos and industrial equipment, which are typically financed. Brian Cheung, NBC news, 29 July 2026 The show was financed and produced by Ford’s operation and produced with Ascendant Fox and Turbine Studios. Peter White, Deadline, 28 July 2026 Parsons built such a devoted YouTube following around his Backrooms shorts that A24 and Chernin Entertainment co-financed the film. Ashlee Difuntorum, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026 Much and possibly most is financed, off-balance sheet and not lit. Yun Li, CNBC, 24 July 2026 The film was supported for its Berlin World Premiere by the UK Global Screen Fund — financed by the UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport and administered by the BFI. Alex Ritman, Variety, 21 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for financed
Verb
  • The deal also blindsided Forest Hill Church, which has met there ever since the church funded the Ballantyne branch’s expansion 15 years ago.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Since this phase carries peak risk and zero yield, it is funded exclusively through high-cost, short-term construction debt or private equity.
    Dr. Dick Bridy, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Seeing an old bulky PC with a PC-DOS command line OS takes those of us of a certain age back to the heady days when computers were exciting and new, even though they had not yet been endowed with the eerie cognitive powers of LLMs.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • But they’re endowed with a fundamentally different intelligence, one shaped by a separate evolutionary path and defined by a nervous system that’s distributed throughout their bodies rather than centralized like that of the brains of most animals.
    Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 29 July 2026
Verb
  • In the 80s and 90s, even major teams had often been run on razor-thin margins (and were subsidized by owners).
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 31 July 2026
  • For decades, China has heavily subsidized its pharmaceutical and chemical sectors.
    Paul Friedrichs, STAT, 30 July 2026

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“Financed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/financed. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

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