as in to fund
to provide money for
a university willing to underwrite an archaeological expedition
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Recent Examples of underwrite
The move underwrites expanded faculty, student fellowships, global programming, and the Center for Global Futures.
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Stephan Rabimov, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The giants of Silicon Valley have a lot in common with Laura Ingalls Wilder, who portrayed her life on the prairie as a triumph of self-sufficiency, barely mentioning that the government underwrote the railroads, provided the farmland and tided the family through rough winters.
—Binyamin Appelbaum, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
This article was underwritten as part of a promotional agreement between The Enquirer and Cincinnati Ballet.
—David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
This year, presenting sponsor Principal Foundation is underwriting booth fees, rental costs for tables and linens, and covering lunch costs for all potters to ensure there are no financial barriers preventing participation.
—Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 2 Sep. 2025
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Stephan Rabimov, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The giants of Silicon Valley have a lot in common with Laura Ingalls Wilder, who portrayed her life on the prairie as a triumph of self-sufficiency, barely mentioning that the government underwrote the railroads, provided the farmland and tided the family through rough winters.
—Binyamin Appelbaum, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
This article was underwritten as part of a promotional agreement between The Enquirer and Cincinnati Ballet.
—David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
This year, presenting sponsor Principal Foundation is underwriting booth fees, rental costs for tables and linens, and covering lunch costs for all potters to ensure there are no financial barriers preventing participation.
—Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 2 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for underwrite
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With the ending of placements at the Civic and city-funded rooms in other CoLEAD shelters, safety ambassadors who were paid to quell the violence on Third Avenue turned to other shelter organizations.—
Ashley Hiruko,
ProPublica,
6 Oct. 2025
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Among the group's priorities is funding the coalition's affordable housing trust fund, which was created to provide homes for households with an annual income of less than $30,000.—
Elizabeth B. Kim,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
6 Oct. 2025
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The film is financed by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Kinepolis Film Distribution (KFD), Proximus, VRT, and the Belgian tax shelter (in cooperation with BNP Paribas Fortis Film Finance and Casa Kafka Pictures).—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
6 Oct. 2025
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The organization Fifty for the Future is donating $25,000 to a fundraising campaign meant to finance improvements to Little Rock Fire Department stations and the purchase of basic items for firefighters' living spaces, officials announced Monday.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Oct. 2025
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Pharmaceutical companies have been wary of even minor concessions, insisting that the high prices paid by Americans subsidize the huge sums that go into researching and developing new drugs.—
Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
2 Oct. 2025
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Their insurance would remain heavily subsidized, just at the lower level established by the original Affordable Care Act legislation.—
Margot Sanger-Katz,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Underwrite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underwrite. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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