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as in patron
a person who takes the responsibility for some other person or thing you'll need a sponsor to recommend you in order to get into the exclusive country club

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verb

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Recent Examples of sponsor
Noun
Partnerships with key sponsors like JPMorgan Chase and Kaiser Permanente reinforce this mission. Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 5 Dec. 2024 However, a front-of-shirt sponsor is still elusive for Chelsea. Henry Flynn, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Verb
Content oversight and quality assurance provided by Bay Area News Group. Bay Area News Group advertising leadership oversees sponsored, native, and paid content on this platform, ensuring its quality, relevance, and helpfulness for our audience. Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 7 Dec. 2024 Outlets have reported her net worth to be over $3 million dollars, and she’s said to make six figures per sponsored Instagram post. Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 5 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sponsor 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sponsor
Noun
  • His patron, and his nemesis, is the Philadelphia blueblood industrialist played by Guy Pearce.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The rebels have Damascus in their sights, and the ability of Assad's forces to repel them — with their patrons Russia and Iran bogged down by other conflicts — suddenly seems uncertain.
    Ivana Saric, Axios, 3 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • As for how the contract will be funded, Sitkowski said in November that CPS is awaiting tax increment financing, or TIF, surplus funds from the city.
    Sarah Macaraeg, Chicago Tribune, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Corporations typically fund presidential inaugural committees, which can take unlimited sums.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • But one big question many senators will likely ask is how Kennedy plans to turn around America's eating habits in a way that doesn't hurt U.S. farmers or heavily regulate agricultural businesses that are key political supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.
    Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2024
  • This happened right in front of the away supporters who cheered and Spence then whipped his arms up asking for more noise.
    Jay Harris, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Richemont will also make available a six-year revolving credit facility of 100 million euros to finance YNAP’s general corporate needs, including working capital.
    Samantha Conti, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The statewide motor vehicle surtax of 0.03% has been collected since 2003, and applies to all retail sales, leases and transfers of motor vehicles and is used to finance transportation improvements.
    Carleen Johnson | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 15 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Read the full Pisces Daily Horoscope Aries (March 21 - April 19) Unusual benefactors?
    USA TODAY, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Though benefactor scandals were not unheard of, there’d never been a reckoning quite like this one.
    Mary Holland, Robb Report, 1 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Among those whom Dickson called when considering Posen was Domenico De Sole, the chairman of Tom Ford International, who had underwritten, along with Ford, Posen’s second runway show in 2002.
    Irina Aleksander, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Amy Marks Dornbusch underwrites this sentiment in full.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Both teams are coming off huge wins at home to set up stretch runs.
    Hank Gola, New York Daily News, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The idea here was to make Kraven some sort of poacher-killing anti-hero, and to set up Last Hunt, the best comic Kraven story.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Now as aged as the Church Lady was perhaps originally intended to be, Carvey hits the familiar beats of patronizing each Church Chat guest and calling things satanic until arriving at an incredible moment with Hunter Biden.
    Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Empty praise or generic recognition can actually decrease engagement by making people feel patronized rather than genuinely valued.
    Louis Carter, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024

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“Sponsor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sponsor. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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