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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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This budget will also have to determine long-term solutions for positions that are grant-funded, particularly in law enforcement.

— Sofi Zeman August 11, Kansas City Star, 11 Aug. 2026
The organizations, including MoveUp Southeast Michigan, MoveUp LA, and MoveUp Washington, will operate on their own but stay funded by the Ballmers.

— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026

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This funding has financed the trees, materials, coordination, planting and three-year stewardship of some 85,000 large canopy trees and 25,000 shrubs along streets and at nearly every San Jose school and park.

— Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2026
Its results show a striking divergence between companies manufacturing new power technologies and those improving how energy is financed, deployed, managed and consumed.

— Rob Day, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

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Higher-for-longer separates managers who underwrote a downside case from managers who underwrote a refinancing that never came.

— Hugh Leask, CNBC, 14 July 2026
French money underwrote the American Revolution, bankrupting Louis XVI’s government and paving the way for their own revolution within a decade of the end of the American war.

— Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026

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