sponsored

past tense of sponsor

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sponsored
Verb
  • The project, launched in 2007, is being co-funded by Italy, Austria and the EU.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
  • In 2024, the NIH provided only $17 million in funding for fibroid research, putting it in the bottom 40 of the 330 conditions funded.
    Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In China, newer but heavily debt-financed assets—from metro systems to high-speed rail—face profitability challenges, with maintenance costs outpacing budgets.
    Maurice Obeid, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The Zionist Organization, founded at the Basel congress, was financed by membership fees.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • 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
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“Sponsored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sponsored. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.

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