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Recent Examples of ancillary
Since 2017, Pines had been in Combs’ orbit, working with one of Combs’ ancillary businesses before becoming his personal assistant in December 2019.
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Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2025
Throughout the program, audience members speculated on the festival’s future following the announcement by organizers about plans to move to a new location in 2027, which could include Cincinnati, Boulder, Colo., or Salt Lake City, with ancillary screenings in Park City.
—Kim Raff, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Fox’s last Super Bowl telecast, in 2023, generated around $600 million in total ad revenue tied to the main event and ancillary programming.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
Such is the ancillary revenue waterfall for theatrical releases.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2025
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Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2025
Throughout the program, audience members speculated on the festival’s future following the announcement by organizers about plans to move to a new location in 2027, which could include Cincinnati, Boulder, Colo., or Salt Lake City, with ancillary screenings in Park City.
—Kim Raff, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Fox’s last Super Bowl telecast, in 2023, generated around $600 million in total ad revenue tied to the main event and ancillary programming.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
Such is the ancillary revenue waterfall for theatrical releases.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ancillary
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For example, using trimmings or byproducts in secondary product lines—overripe fruit can be processed into juices or purees instead of being discarded.—
Guy Yehiav,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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The latest to hit the market comes from World Whiskey Society, an non-distilling producer that sources different styles of whiskey from around the world, often giving them a secondary maturation in another set of casks.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
21 Feb. 2025
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Last week in an auxiliary state district court in Tarrant County, Delafuente, who is 34, pleaded guilty to murder in an agreement with the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office in which he was sentenced to 40 years in prison.—
Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Feb. 2025
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Sacramento State and its auxiliary Capital Public Radio have stopped paying rent for a downtown building — once planned as the station’s new headquarters but that CapRadio never fully moved into — after sinking about $1.6 million in rent payments for the office space in just under two years.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacramento Bee,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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But all our doctrines are subordinate to the question of who Jesus is.—
Gordon Pennertz,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Annoyed by her subordinate role at Atelier (though she’s had the job for less than six months), Kriska boldly declares that Monica is self-centered.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
6 Feb. 2025
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The company will devise and develop new content that Fremantle and its subsidiary producers, including Eureka Productions, will produce and sell.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
27 Jan. 2025
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Bud Slatkin, an attorney for CBZ Management and its subsidiary company that formally owns the William Penn building, did not return an email seeking comment.—
Seth Klamann,
The Denver Post,
24 Jan. 2025
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Waldock said the helicopter pilots, with their night vision goggles interfering with their peripheral vision, may have wrongly focused on a plane that took off just before the collision.—
Gary Fields,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Feb. 2025
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The worms migrate through the blood or along peripheral nerves to get to the central nervous system.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The supplement market in particular was one of the first to respond with complementary and supplementary products.—
Emily Burns,
WWD,
7 Jan. 2025
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This fine comes as a supplementary discipline under NHL Rule 64.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
4 Jan. 2025
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Unleashing American Energy paused the supplemental funding from the IIJA, meaning that the families who received the grant in January now must pay for it with their next electric bill.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
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Lynch revealed last year that he’d been diagnosed with emphysema and needed to rely on supplemental oxygen after having been a smoker since the age of 8.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
8 Feb. 2025
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Buyers showed just enough exertion Tuesday and Wednesday to lift the S & P 500 a quarter of a percent to a marginal new record high each session.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
22 Feb. 2025
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The expiring provisions from Trump’s 2017 law benefit middle- and low-income taxpayers in the form of lower marginal rates and a larger child tax credit, but some disproportionately help the wealthy, including a higher cap on the estate and gift tax.—
David Sivak,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Ancillary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ancillary. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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