underwrote

past tense of underwrite

Example Sentences

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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. Binyamin Appelbaum, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for underwrote
Verb
  • 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
  • Trade-in buyers with negative equity financed $11,164 more than the typical new car buyer.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
  • 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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