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one that helps another with gifts or money
an anonymous benefactor gave the school a dozen new computers
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Recent Examples of benefactors
Fleiss has a non-profit but also relies on generous benefactors to keep bird food and medicine in stock.
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Gillian Telling, People.com, 25 Dec. 2024
Three days before Christmas, those same benefactors indulge 5,000 needy kids to a day of entertainment.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 23 Dec. 2024
Yet, despite this populist rhetoric, Wallace's real concern in terms of pushing low property taxes was helping his corporate benefactors.
—Brucie Porter / Made By History, TIME, 5 Dec. 2024
The real threat of those federal mandates, however, was to the corporate bottom line for Wallace’s biggest benefactors.
—Brucie Porter / Made By History, TIME, 5 Dec. 2024
For these anti-Assad observers, the group presents an opportunity to topple the brutality of his regime and its Russian and Iranian benefactors.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2024
After Biden attracted billionaires like Michael Bloomberg and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Harris has already got the backing of at least 76 wealthy benefactors herself, including Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and philanthropist Melinda French Gates.
—Alison Durkee, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
With polls indicating a very close Presidential election, the biggest benefactors of this ad spending largesse are the local television stations in seven swing states; Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada.
—Brad Adgate, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
The family history is equally underwritten, barely establishing Satya and Ankur’s relationship to their benefactors before they are never heard from again.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 13 Oct. 2024
Gillian Telling, People.com, 25 Dec. 2024
Three days before Christmas, those same benefactors indulge 5,000 needy kids to a day of entertainment.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 23 Dec. 2024
Yet, despite this populist rhetoric, Wallace's real concern in terms of pushing low property taxes was helping his corporate benefactors.
—Brucie Porter / Made By History, TIME, 5 Dec. 2024
The real threat of those federal mandates, however, was to the corporate bottom line for Wallace’s biggest benefactors.
—Brucie Porter / Made By History, TIME, 5 Dec. 2024
For these anti-Assad observers, the group presents an opportunity to topple the brutality of his regime and its Russian and Iranian benefactors.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2024
After Biden attracted billionaires like Michael Bloomberg and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Harris has already got the backing of at least 76 wealthy benefactors herself, including Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and philanthropist Melinda French Gates.
—Alison Durkee, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
With polls indicating a very close Presidential election, the biggest benefactors of this ad spending largesse are the local television stations in seven swing states; Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada.
—Brad Adgate, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
The family history is equally underwritten, barely establishing Satya and Ankur’s relationship to their benefactors before they are never heard from again.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 13 Oct. 2024
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“Benefactors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/benefactors. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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