How to Use silent partner in a Sentence
silent partner
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Colleges cannot be silent partners in opening doors to prosperity for families.
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Literary Hub,
5 Mar. 2026
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Whether starting in a garage or exiting through a private equity sale, real estate is the silent partner that can shape the legacy of a business for generations.
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Allen Buchanan,
Oc Register,
6 Sep. 2025
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If pricing, rewards, and underwriting must be redesigned under political pressure, banks prefer to be the decision-maker rather than a silent partner.
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Zennon Kapron,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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By licensing his behavioral models, the TikToker is essentially (and fittingly) a silent partner in the brand deal.
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Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
29 Jan. 2026
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Dor, who founded AI production company The Dor Brothers with his silent partner sibling, thinks hatred of artificial intelligence is at its peak right now.
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Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
3 Dec. 2025
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For a solo founder or a lean team, these new tools promise to act like a silent partner, flagging potential issues, handling repetitive work, and delivering insights that might otherwise take a part-time CFO to uncover.
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Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
13 Aug. 2025
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At the same time, there is the rapprochement between Israel and Arab states, which began with the country’s peace deals with Egypt and Jordan—and then there is Israel’s recent Abraham Accords with sundry Muslim states, including Morocco and Sudan, with Saudi Arabia as silent partner.
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Josef Joffe,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2026
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