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to provide money for
several corporations bankrolled the Broadway musical
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Recent Examples of bankrolling
Alan Friedman, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Dec. 2024
After bankrolling some more ambitious swings, the company has aimed more at the casual gaming segment, tying many of its releases to popular series and films.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
That’s unlikely, if not fanciful, given the network’s role in bankrolling college athletics.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 10 Dec. 2024
Germans were angry, too, resentful at bankrolling other people’s profligate ways.
—Robert Kagan, Foreign Affairs, 2 Apr. 2019
Verb
The City of Rome is bankrolling the concert, so tickets to see Boy George are free.
—Alan Friedman, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Dec. 2024
After bankrolling some more ambitious swings, the company has aimed more at the casual gaming segment, tying many of its releases to popular series and films.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
That’s unlikely, if not fanciful, given the network’s role in bankrolling college athletics.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 10 Dec. 2024
Germans were angry, too, resentful at bankrolling other people’s profligate ways.
—Robert Kagan, Foreign Affairs, 2 Apr. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bankrolling
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With production and manufacturing back to pre-pandemic levels, dealers are eager to reduce excess inventory and 0% financing deals are making a return.Morgan Korn, ABC News, 1 Jan. 2025
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That's a significant chunk, on top of other financing alternatives like bank loans and cobbling together groups of other wealthy individuals (e.g., how Josh Harris bought the Washington Commanders).Dan Primack, Axios, 31 Dec. 2024
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His research findings can be applied China’s current strategy of subsidizing distressed companies, which is driving cheaper exports into global markets and could pose challenges for local suppliers.IESE Business School, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Then why is the public subsidizing this activity?Evan Simon, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2024
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Officials have vowed to sharply expand the subsidy program next year in addition to further monetary easing.Dave Smith, Fortune Asia, 31 Dec. 2024
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Given the constant demands by wind, solar, and EV company executives for more and more government subsidies to sustain their failing business models, this reality could become disastrous for those rent-seeking industries in the coming years as the era of crony capitalism comes to a close.David Blackmon, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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That includes the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Strategic Investment Fund, which focuses on the global health space, and Walmart heir Lukas Walton, whose Builders Vision investing and philanthropy platform shifted 90% of its billion-dollar endowment into impact investments in 2022.Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 20 Dec. 2024
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Moreover, BlackRock’s existing clients including pension funds, endowments, and sovereign wealth funds are increasingly allocating capital to private markets to meet their long-term return expectations.Trefis Team, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Bankrolling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bankrolling. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
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