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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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Recent Examples of sponsors
Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 11 Nov. 2025
Prieto found sponsors to help continue teaching classes to veterans at no cost to them.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 10 Nov. 2025
The club extends its gratitude to Viewpoint Brewing Company, sponsors, volunteers, and community members who made the event such a success, the news release stated.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2025
Also at that event was John Rinehart, who is president of business operations for the Sacramento Kings, one of the rink’s sponsors.
—Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 8 Nov. 2025
The Portugal-Japan collaboration from Moon Road Media & Films received a cash prize of $30,000 from the two sponsors of the award — TCCF organizer Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) and France’s Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC).
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Nov. 2025
Community partnership builds home Habitat for Humanity built Mitchell’s home in partnership with Bank of America and other community sponsors.
—Annie Elming, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 Oct. 2025
That bill currently has ten GOP co-sponsors and one Democratic co-sponsor, Peter Welch of Vermont.
—Barbara Sprunt, NPR, 29 Oct. 2025
Toppling Brazil’s tariffs, currently at 50%, is novel to the Senate but has support from GOP co-sponsors Paul, Collins, and Murkowski.
—Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 28 Oct. 2025
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Total floor space will measure 100,000 square feet, up from the 81,000 previously announced, and 360 brands have been locked in, including eight platinum sponsors.
—Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 11 Nov. 2025
Prieto found sponsors to help continue teaching classes to veterans at no cost to them.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 10 Nov. 2025
The club extends its gratitude to Viewpoint Brewing Company, sponsors, volunteers, and community members who made the event such a success, the news release stated.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2025
Also at that event was John Rinehart, who is president of business operations for the Sacramento Kings, one of the rink’s sponsors.
—Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 8 Nov. 2025
The Portugal-Japan collaboration from Moon Road Media & Films received a cash prize of $30,000 from the two sponsors of the award — TCCF organizer Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) and France’s Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC).
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Nov. 2025
Community partnership builds home Habitat for Humanity built Mitchell’s home in partnership with Bank of America and other community sponsors.
—Annie Elming, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 Oct. 2025
That bill currently has ten GOP co-sponsors and one Democratic co-sponsor, Peter Welch of Vermont.
—Barbara Sprunt, NPR, 29 Oct. 2025
Toppling Brazil’s tariffs, currently at 50%, is novel to the Senate but has support from GOP co-sponsors Paul, Collins, and Murkowski.
—Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 28 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sponsors
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For Starbucks patrons at an upscale mall in Beijing’s central business district – the same complex where the company first opened its doors in China in 1999 – the news doesn’t come as a complete surprise.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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Next door at Delirium, bar patrons raise a glass in their feline friend’s memory.—
Elisabeth Garber-Paul,
Rolling Stone,
5 Nov. 2025
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The deal fully funds key agencies, including Veterans Affairs, the Department of Agriculture, and the FDA, for the full fiscal year.—
Alia Shoaib,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
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These syndicates are part of the same criminal economy that funds military airstrikes and repression.—
Kim Aris,
Time,
7 Nov. 2025
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Just hearing ‘set piece’ sends a shiver down Liverpool supporters’ spines.—
Andy Jones,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, Selfless Love Foundation is able to offer this National Think Tank at no cost, including scholarships to cover youth’s travel and accommodations.—
Dana Perino,
FOXNews.com,
9 Nov. 2025
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Ottawa — ‘#WANTITALL’ is an unlikely hashtag for a country that stakes its brand on being humble and nice.—
Paula Newton,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
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Everything around you stakes an equal claim.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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The second-most popular reason, at 28%, was not having a relationship with their benefactors’ advisor.—
Hayley Cuccinello,
CNBC,
16 Oct. 2025
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But the arrangement could create an appearance of a conflict of interest, as Anderson’s office has steered public dollars to a business owned by a family who have been his political benefactors.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Putin created the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives four years later, which finances exhibitions, festivals, and art that rehabilitate Moscow’s image both at home and abroad.—
Tetiana Kotelnykova,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 2025
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The local surfing scene mainly finances the cost through crowdfunding campaigns.—
Sabrina Weiss,
The Dial,
23 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The move underwrites expanded faculty, student fellowships, global programming, and the Center for Global Futures.—
Stephan Rabimov,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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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
Cite this Entry
“Sponsors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sponsors. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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