sponsors 1 of 2

noun

plural of sponsor
as in patrons
a person who takes the responsibility for some other person or thing you'll need a sponsor to recommend you in order to get into the exclusive country club

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verb

present tense third-person singular of sponsor
as in funds

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Recent Examples of sponsors
Noun
Because so much time has elapsed since Disney last covered the Super Bowl, the company wasn’t burdened by the same degree of obligations to incumbent sponsors that CBS, Fox and NBC face. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 5 Aug. 2026 The bill’s sponsors need support from at least seven Democrats, and the chamber’s recess is coming up at the end of the week. — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026 Those children were held in custody for an average of 194 days before being released to sponsors, which lawyers who represent the children say is unusually long and has been detrimental to the health and safety of the children. — Chiara Eisner, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026 When the question is accumulated knowledge with years of safety and efficacy data, refined dosing, and better patient selection, sponsors are told that information doesn’t go the other way. — Kat Bryant Knudson, STAT, 31 July 2026 Ray thanked the city, sponsors, mentors, pastors, volunteers and audience members who supported his work. — Kansas City Star, 28 July 2026 Italy’s dignity decree, which banned front-of-shirt betting sponsors, is a fig leaf anyway. — James Horncastle, New York Times, 28 July 2026 Neal had arranged for three of his portfolio companies to serve as sponsors for some of Paris Fashion Week’s most exclusive after-parties. — Partner Content, Variety, 28 July 2026 School’s Out was inaugurated in 2000, and has since attracted several sponsors, including Nordstrom, United Airlines, Jensen Partners, Dixon Advisory, Mono Monkey and more. — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 28 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sponsors
  1. patrons
  2. funds
  3. supporters
  4. stakes
  5. benefactors
  6. finances
  7. underwrites
  8. patronizes
Noun
  • The group of patrons had gathered for the special prayer service.
    — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Police soon evacuated all patrons and workers, ordering them to stand across the street and await further instructions.
    — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of patrons
Verb
  • The curatorial experts who have built and shaped their collections for decades, or the public that funds them?
    — Emi Eleode, ARTnews.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • That structure means the stadium project has to be financed largely through the club’s own commercial growth rather than an external capital injection of the kind that funds the rise of many clubs in recent years.
    — Sam Leveridge, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of funds
Noun
  • Some Modi supporters have doubled down, however, with online activists aligned to Modi’s party seeking to identify protesters and share their personal details online to intimidate them.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • If the constitutional amendment passes, supporters hope to elect at least four conservative, antiabortion justices to the seven-member court by 2033.
    — John Hanna, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of supporters
Verb
  • Kent Nishimura | Reuters The Senate stakes McConnell, a former longtime Senate majority leader, declined to seek an eighth term following a series of health scares.
    — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 8 July 2026
  • Dar Zéro founder Brigid Smith stakes her claim on bohemian style, blending gritty luxury with elevated, global influences.
    — Rebecca Suhrawardi, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of stakes
Noun
  • After Gretchen Whitmer, the state’s popular Democratic governor, endorsed Stevens last week, El-Sayed explained the choice as the inevitable product of the two women’s benefactors.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
  • Working with patrons Anadol counters that anyone can have free access to the models his studio develops, and that there's nothing new about contemporary artists' relationships with rich and powerful benefactors.
    — Chloe Veltman, NPR, 29 July 2026
Definition of benefactors
Verb
  • An American who purchases a home in Switzerland, Germany or the United Kingdom typically finances that home in Swiss francs, euros or pounds — the currency in which the property is priced and in which the taxpayer earns income.
    — Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Their model included where the city’s water comes from, how the local utility finances new infrastructure and sets rates and how rising rates might change how households use water.
    — Emma Court, Fortune, 8 July 2026
Definition of finances
Verb
  • But that spread is the distance between the single best market in America and the average one, measured after the year ended, and nobody underwrites to hindsight.
    — Tony Julianelle, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • Goldman advises hyperscalers, underwrites chip company offerings, and sits at the table with the companies building the very infrastructure Covello was interrogating.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 6 May 2026
Definition of underwrites
Verb
  • Liam, the brother who clearly wanted this reunion the most, and wore the inability to re-consummate the brotherly relationship like an open wound, is still given mostly to jokes on stage more than serious statements or anything that patronizes the audience.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
Definition of patronizes

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