as in financed
to provide money for
a university willing to underwrite an archaeological expedition
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Recent Examples of underwrote
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.
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Binyamin Appelbaum, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
Binyamin Appelbaum, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for underwrote
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Stuckmann is a movie reviewer and personality on YouTube with more than 2 million subscribers who worked on getting the film made for years and financed it through a Kickstarter campaign.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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Trade-in buyers with negative equity financed $11,164 more than the typical new car buyer.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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Now estimated to cost $300 million, the work is being funded by private, tax-deductible donations routed through the nonprofit Trust for the National Mall.—
Melanie Hicken,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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But the agency cautions WIC is not yet funded for fiscal year 2026 and shutdown impacts could be coming.—
Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
23 Oct. 2025
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The old-school business models used to support this sort of antagonistic reporting because the papers were subsidized by classified ads and lifestyle coverage.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Now, the revolution will not be subsidized.—
Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Underwrote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underwrote. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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