as in financed
to provide money for
several corporations bankrolled the Broadway musical
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Recent Examples of bankrolled
Based in Washington, the Berger Action Fund is bankrolled by Hansjörg Wyss, a Swiss billionaire whose donations have landed him in the crosshairs of congressional and state investigations into foreign influence in the United States.
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Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 Dec. 2024
The hedge-fund billionaire George Soros has long bankrolled liberal nonprofits.
—Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
The trips — which were bankrolled by special interests — focused on big-picture policy ideas for the coming year.
—Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2024
California voters have approved Proposition 34, a measure from an apartment trade group that aimed to restrict spending by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has bankrolled several rent control initiatives and criticized the measure as unconstitutional revenge.
—Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
The measure was put forth by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which bankrolled two similar initiatives in recent years that were also rejected after the real estate industry outspent supporters, contending that the measures would tank housing construction and make the affordability crisis worse.
—Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
The campaign for the ballot initiative is backed by a group of local prosecutors, including many who are politically conservative, and bankrolled in large part by Walmart and other big retailers.
—Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
Many were bankrolled by the parties directly.
—Jon Grinspan, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2024
The steely faux-Gothic design of Lord Norman Foster’s Four Twenty Five skyscraper, including the restaurant, was bankrolled by the same entrepreneurs who took over the Seagram Building, Aby Rosen, David Levinson and Robert Lapidus.
—John Mariani, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 Dec. 2024
The hedge-fund billionaire George Soros has long bankrolled liberal nonprofits.
—Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
The trips — which were bankrolled by special interests — focused on big-picture policy ideas for the coming year.
—Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2024
California voters have approved Proposition 34, a measure from an apartment trade group that aimed to restrict spending by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has bankrolled several rent control initiatives and criticized the measure as unconstitutional revenge.
—Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
The measure was put forth by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which bankrolled two similar initiatives in recent years that were also rejected after the real estate industry outspent supporters, contending that the measures would tank housing construction and make the affordability crisis worse.
—Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
The campaign for the ballot initiative is backed by a group of local prosecutors, including many who are politically conservative, and bankrolled in large part by Walmart and other big retailers.
—Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
Many were bankrolled by the parties directly.
—Jon Grinspan, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2024
The steely faux-Gothic design of Lord Norman Foster’s Four Twenty Five skyscraper, including the restaurant, was bankrolled by the same entrepreneurs who took over the Seagram Building, Aby Rosen, David Levinson and Robert Lapidus.
—John Mariani, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Bankrolled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bankrolled. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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