sponsored

past tense of sponsor

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Recent Examples of sponsored As well as Powerade, owned by the Coca-Cola Company, Fox’s in-game adverts have also been sponsored by Lenovo, another official FIFA sponsor. Tom Burrows, New York Times, 17 June 2026 Albertsons has sponsored the event since its inception, and Chevron joined in 2021 as the presenting sponsor. Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 24 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sponsored
Verb
  • It's funded more than 223 research projects and community grants worldwide.
    Tom Ignudo, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • Part of the effort was to subsidize its community rentals, which were funded by grants that are now gone.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
Verb
  • Madonna's first trip to London in 1982, with her friend, dancer Martin Burgoyne, was financed by their bartending jobs at New York's East Village bar Lucky Strike.
    Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 5 July 2026
  • While admission is free, the event has a roughly €2 million production budget and is financed entirely through sponsors rather than ticket sales.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 3 July 2026
Verb
  • Software, with its recurring revenues and high margins, became the consensus answer for investors across every asset class - public equity funds bought the stocks and private credit funds underwrote the debt.
    Steven Dudash, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Soon enough, there was the Giorgio Armani retrospective at the Guggenheim, and JPMorgan Chase underwrote the opening day of the new MoMA, which had spent half a billion dollars to rebuild itself.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026

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“Sponsored.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sponsored. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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