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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Recent Examples of sponsors
Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 7 Oct. 2025
The media conglomerate, now under the aegis of Skydance Media, is unveiling a new ad format on Paramount+ that ensures sponsors who choose it get seen by broader audiences, even if every streaming subscriber is free to watch a comedy, drama, or other program at times of their own choosing.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
With Newsom’s signature now on AB 1340, drivers can collectively bargain and unionize, including negotiating contracts, which would set industry-wide standards, according to proponents like bill sponsors Assemblymembers Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, and Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland.
—David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 6 Oct. 2025
The festival, which started in Little Rock in 1984, has evolved beyond Greek food to include recipes and dishes from Palestine, Armenia, India and more of the nationalities represented at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, the festival's host and one of its main sponsors.
—Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2025
The aim is to keep live shows affordable and accessible for fans, according to a memo seeking co-sponsors.
—Jessie Opoien, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
With the sponsors, the networks, and the stations all satisfied with the arrangement, opponents of the blacklist turned to the FCC as the court of last resort.
—Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
Briatore highly rated the young driver’s ability and saw considerable commercial value in Colapinto’s sponsors.
—Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Rather than the large swath of private equity firms that backed LBOs over the years, with investors sometimes squabbling over strategy and straining under heavy debt loads, the new-model buyouts have fewer and deeper-pocketed sponsors.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
Murphy, notably, is not among the SAFE Act’s co-sponsors.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 7 Oct. 2025
The media conglomerate, now under the aegis of Skydance Media, is unveiling a new ad format on Paramount+ that ensures sponsors who choose it get seen by broader audiences, even if every streaming subscriber is free to watch a comedy, drama, or other program at times of their own choosing.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
With Newsom’s signature now on AB 1340, drivers can collectively bargain and unionize, including negotiating contracts, which would set industry-wide standards, according to proponents like bill sponsors Assemblymembers Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, and Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland.
—David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 6 Oct. 2025
The festival, which started in Little Rock in 1984, has evolved beyond Greek food to include recipes and dishes from Palestine, Armenia, India and more of the nationalities represented at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, the festival's host and one of its main sponsors.
—Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2025
The aim is to keep live shows affordable and accessible for fans, according to a memo seeking co-sponsors.
—Jessie Opoien, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
With the sponsors, the networks, and the stations all satisfied with the arrangement, opponents of the blacklist turned to the FCC as the court of last resort.
—Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
Briatore highly rated the young driver’s ability and saw considerable commercial value in Colapinto’s sponsors.
—Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Rather than the large swath of private equity firms that backed LBOs over the years, with investors sometimes squabbling over strategy and straining under heavy debt loads, the new-model buyouts have fewer and deeper-pocketed sponsors.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sponsors
Noun
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No one knows for sure how many bars exist on Earth, but there are likely millions of spots around the world where patrons can get a glass of wine or a bottle of beer.—
Lilit Marcus,
CNN Money,
8 Oct. 2025
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Skull regularly sat on a bench outside the club, inviting people into the club where patrons could get a hamburger for 25 cents, two eggs for 50 cents and a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer for 35 cents.—
Keith Sharon,
Nashville Tennessean,
7 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The government can raise revenues by increasing the payroll tax that funds Social Security or the income threshold to continue paying the tax or raise the full retirement age.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
5 Oct. 2025
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The budget funds 280 fewer full-time MSP positions than in 2025, though the bulk of those cuts represent the elimination of vacant positions.—
Paul Egan,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The chorus of boos at the final whistle showed what supporters made of it.—
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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Back in the 1920s, even the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin called on his British supporters to affiliate with the Labour Party instead of fighting it.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
4 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Everything around you stakes an equal claim.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Signed last week, on the same day that the Department of Justice indicted James Comey, it is designed to facilitate the transfer of a social-media platform with a hundred and seventy million American users to a consortium that features several of the President’s political and financial benefactors.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Moreover, as the show delves into the mystery behind the academy’s founding and its benefactors, Evelyn’s manipulation tactics become apparent, wedging even the closest pupils apart and establishing a hierarchy among the Tall Pines Academy staff.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
25 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The local surfing scene mainly finances the cost through crowdfunding campaigns.—
Sabrina Weiss,
The Dial,
23 Sep. 2025
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Even though Germany largely finances the EU, or France plays a central role, no single country can act decisively.—
Koray Köse,
Forbes.com,
19 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
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“Sponsors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sponsors. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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