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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 suppliers
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
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
Boeing is the United States’ largest exporter, one of only two suppliers of full-size jets to both the US and global airline industries and a key US military contractor.
—Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 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
With a dependency on a limited number of highly specialist suppliers, these bottlenecks are not going to be solved over the next decade.
—CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
With few suppliers of these rare earth elements, the political and economic costs of securing them are high.
—Steven Lamy, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2026
Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 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
Boeing is the United States’ largest exporter, one of only two suppliers of full-size jets to both the US and global airline industries and a key US military contractor.
—Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 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
With a dependency on a limited number of highly specialist suppliers, these bottlenecks are not going to be solved over the next decade.
—CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
With few suppliers of these rare earth elements, the political and economic costs of securing them are high.
—Steven Lamy, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for suppliers
distributors
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Netflix leads all distributors with 35 total nominations across film and television, while Neon secured an impressive 21 film nominations despite being a smaller distributor.—
Jenzia Burgos,
StyleCaster,
11 Jan. 2026
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“Suppliers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suppliers. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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