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
Hence the switch, a year or so after the film’s release, to a stadium now named after the latest in a long line of sponsors that, for all the vital money brought in, have slightly eroded identity. — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026 About 1,800 children were living in shelters and roughly 22,000 facing deportation were living with outside sponsors such as family members, according to the legal service providers whose contract expired. — ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026 The legal and regulatory commentary on the FDA's December 2025 final guidance on real-world evidence (RWE) for medical devices has focused on what the guidance asks sponsors to prove. — David Talby, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Dallas has re-upped several of its biggest sponsors over the past year, and the club’s $300 million in annual sponsorship revenue is nearly twice that of any other team. — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Jeff Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, were lead sponsors of the 2026 Met Gala. — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 11 Aug. 2026 Slusher has been revamping the business model to attract big-ticket sponsors. — Leslie Picker,ritika Shah, CNBC, 11 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sponsors
  1. patrons
  2. funds
  3. supporters
  4. stakes
  5. benefactors
  6. finances
  7. underwrites
  8. patronizes
Noun
  • The coordination, travel companies say, ensures the content creators don’t disturb other patrons.
    — Doug Gollan, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • After the gunman fired into the restaurant, McClain helped evacuate patrons and employees while looking for the threat, according to police.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of patrons
Verb
  • To combat the spread, the USDA jointly funds and manages a sterile fly production facility with Panama that releases about 100 million sterile flies each week.
    — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Central technology funds the experiments, the platform and the build.
    — Sanjay Srivastava, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of funds
Noun
  • But Craig's supporters have argued that the four-term congresswoman is the more electable candidate, especially as Flanagan has been tied to the Minnesota governor's handling of the multimillion-dollar fraud schemes in the state.
    — Caroline Linton, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Martin Farr, a contemporary historian at Newcastle University, said Farage will probably come out of the election strengthened, at least in the eyes of his supporters.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 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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