Thesaurus results for SPONSORED

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past tense of sponsor

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Recent Examples of sponsored As well as Powerade, owned by the Coca-Cola Company, Fox’s in-game adverts have also been sponsored by Lenovo, another official FIFA sponsor. — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 17 June 2026 Albertsons has sponsored the event since its inception, and Chevron joined in 2021 as the presenting sponsor. — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 24 Mar. 2026

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Chen’s research has been funded by the US State Department and US Air Force Research Laboratory.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
Meals at sites across Minnesota during the COVID-19 pandemic were funded by the Federal Child Nutrition Program.

— Nick Lentz, CBS News, 14 July 2026

Definition of funded

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Madonna's first trip to London in 1982, with her friend, dancer Martin Burgoyne, was financed by their bartending jobs at New York's East Village bar Lucky Strike.

— Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 5 July 2026
While admission is free, the event has a roughly €2 million production budget and is financed entirely through sponsors rather than ticket sales.

— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 3 July 2026

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Software, with its recurring revenues and high margins, became the consensus answer for investors across every asset class - public equity funds bought the stocks and private credit funds underwrote the debt.

— Steven Dudash, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Soon enough, there was the Giorgio Armani retrospective at the Guggenheim, and JPMorgan Chase underwrote the opening day of the new MoMA, which had spent half a billion dollars to rebuild itself.

— Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026

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