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to provide money for
several corporations bankrolled the Broadway musical
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Recent Examples of bankrolling
Alan Friedman, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Dec. 2024
After bankrolling some more ambitious swings, the company has aimed more at the casual gaming segment, tying many of its releases to popular series and films.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
That’s unlikely, if not fanciful, given the network’s role in bankrolling college athletics.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 10 Dec. 2024
Germans were angry, too, resentful at bankrolling other people’s profligate ways.
—Robert Kagan, Foreign Affairs, 2 Apr. 2019
Verb
The City of Rome is bankrolling the concert, so tickets to see Boy George are free.
—Alan Friedman, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Dec. 2024
After bankrolling some more ambitious swings, the company has aimed more at the casual gaming segment, tying many of its releases to popular series and films.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
That’s unlikely, if not fanciful, given the network’s role in bankrolling college athletics.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 10 Dec. 2024
Germans were angry, too, resentful at bankrolling other people’s profligate ways.
—Robert Kagan, Foreign Affairs, 2 Apr. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bankrolling
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Alas, the necessary financing never came in to get the movie off the ground.Zack Sharf, Variety, 14 Jan. 2025
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There are also more borrowers taking advantage of two programs that are under the 7(a) umbrella providing small loans with financing of up to $500,000, and quick access to revolving credit.Megan Poinski, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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His research findings can be applied China’s current strategy of subsidizing distressed companies, which is driving cheaper exports into global markets and could pose challenges for local suppliers.IESE Business School, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Then why is the public subsidizing this activity?Evan Simon, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2024
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Trump has also erroneously cast the U.S. trade deficit with Canada — a natural resource-rich nation that provides the U.S. with commodities like oil — as a subsidy.Jim Morris, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
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But no other disabled retirees have been able to stay on the city’s insurance after losing the subsidy, her lawyers told the court.Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025
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Baker, however, still holds an endowment of about $362 million, according to its 2023 tax filing.Anna Clark, ProPublica, 7 Jan. 2025
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Bloomberg also made a $600 million donation to the endowments of four historically Black medical schools.Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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“Bankrolling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bankrolling. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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