sponsored

past tense of sponsor

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Verb
  • Because it is privately funded and receives no federal money, the project is exempt from many exhaustive governmental vetting and environmental analysis requirements.
    Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Major projects the club has funded include the renovation of the Carroll Senior High School weight room, revamping the Dragon Alley tailgate festivities on game days and even helping to fund the hiring of a full-time strength and conditioning coach.
    Charles Baggarly October 9, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The film is financed by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Kinepolis Film Distribution (KFD), Proximus, VRT, and the Belgian tax shelter (in cooperation with BNP Paribas Fortis Film Finance and Casa Kafka Pictures).
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The film is financed by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Kinepolis Film Distribution (KFD), Proximus, VRT and the Belgian tax shelter (in cooperation with France’s BNP Paribas Fortis Film Finance and Casa Kafka Pictures).
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The giants of Silicon Valley have a lot in common with Laura Ingalls Wilder, who portrayed her life on the prairie as a triumph of self-sufficiency, barely mentioning that the government underwrote the railroads, provided the farmland and tided the family through rough winters.
    Binyamin Appelbaum, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Sponsored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sponsored. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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