as in distributor
a person or company that supplies goods or services
paper suppliers They are the biggest supplier of books in the area.
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Recent Examples of supplier
Yet the primary data required for compliance—fiber origin, material composition, chemical inputs—are generated and held upstream by suppliers and processors.
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Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 28 Jan. 2026
The Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), along with a cruise ship supplier, filed a lawsuit in early September challenging state tax and county finance officials in the Aloha State, as Fox News Digital previously reported.
—Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 28 Jan. 2026
The company has benefited from a boom in artificial intelligence as a key supplier of high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, used in chipsets for AI data centers like those from Nvidia.
—Dylan Butts, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
Eco effort Sustainability has clearly been considered here—there’s a lack of plastic, and restaurant suppliers are kept local wherever possible—but the hotel could do a better job at communicating its eco credentials to guests.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Jan. 2026
Indian firms are partners in Abu Dhabi upstream and operate across ADNOC’s wider ecosystem as customers, suppliers, and contractors—down to industrial products like sulphur used for fertiliser.
—Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
India’s imports of Russian crude are expected to continue declining as the world’s third-largest buyer of the fuel diversifies suppliers, Oil Minister Hardeep Puri said.
—Menaka Doshi, Bloomberg, 27 Jan. 2026
The 175-year-old Corning, a longtime fixture of the Fortune 500, has reinvented itself once again—this time as a critical supplier to the world’s largest AI data centers.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2026
But the storm — which has left 10 people dead and a million without power — has led to surging gas prices in the US, up around 120% in the past week, as suppliers have had to shut drilling sites because of the cold and prioritize domestic demand.
—Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 28 Jan. 2026
The Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), along with a cruise ship supplier, filed a lawsuit in early September challenging state tax and county finance officials in the Aloha State, as Fox News Digital previously reported.
—Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 28 Jan. 2026
The company has benefited from a boom in artificial intelligence as a key supplier of high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, used in chipsets for AI data centers like those from Nvidia.
—Dylan Butts, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
Eco effort Sustainability has clearly been considered here—there’s a lack of plastic, and restaurant suppliers are kept local wherever possible—but the hotel could do a better job at communicating its eco credentials to guests.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Jan. 2026
Indian firms are partners in Abu Dhabi upstream and operate across ADNOC’s wider ecosystem as customers, suppliers, and contractors—down to industrial products like sulphur used for fertiliser.
—Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
India’s imports of Russian crude are expected to continue declining as the world’s third-largest buyer of the fuel diversifies suppliers, Oil Minister Hardeep Puri said.
—Menaka Doshi, Bloomberg, 27 Jan. 2026
The 175-year-old Corning, a longtime fixture of the Fortune 500, has reinvented itself once again—this time as a critical supplier to the world’s largest AI data centers.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2026
But the storm — which has left 10 people dead and a million without power — has led to surging gas prices in the US, up around 120% in the past week, as suppliers have had to shut drilling sites because of the cold and prioritize domestic demand.
—Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supplier
distributor
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Morgan Stanley initiates Medline as overweight Morgan Stanley said the medical distributor is a share gainer.—
Michael Bloom,
CNBC,
12 Jan. 2026
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The 6-foot-3 Reed can do everything a point guard is expected to do — dribble, make shots from anywhere on the court, be a distributor when needed.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2026
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“Supplier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supplier. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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