bankroll
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The company has long relied on this high-yielding equity as its primary engine to bankroll Bitcoin acquisitions—a strategy that backfires when the shares lose ground.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
Big Tech may increasingly sell stock to bankroll $820 billion AI boom.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 5, 2026
It has also co-opted the economy, so that Sudan’s many riches bankroll the belligerents even as most Sudanese are impoverished.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
Will they keep faith and bankroll a head coach who was backed with a £450m transfer outlay last summer, or cut their losses to make a fresh start?
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
With this bankroll, he was able to purchase and outfit a three-masted, coal-powered barkentine called Polaris from a Norwegian firm that specialized in polar vessels.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Phil Knight, who bankrolls Oregon, turned Nike into an intercontinental empire that transformed the Ducks into a gridiron behemoth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
It might seem wise to make room for smaller bankrolls in the city—the soul of Las Vegas is contingent on budget travelers—but those appeals are invariably ignored.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025
In past years, this tiny desert nation has captured outsized attention largely because of the splashy real estate projects it bankrolls with proceeds from the world’s largest gas field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
The American-based PGA Tour, Europe's DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, which bankrolls LIV, surprised the golfing world last June when they announced a "framework agreement" to merge interests.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2024
What’s more, she had seen off these “Calibans of brute strength, enormous bankrolls and stupendous power” using only “Nature’s greatest resource, a radiant intellect.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
The LIV project, which pivoted to a more traditional 72-hole format this year, has been bankrolled by an eye-watering amount of money from PIF.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
JD Vance converted to Catholicism in 2019, during a time when he was being heavily bankrolled by esoteric Catholic billionaire Peter Thiel.
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2026
As it turned out, the deal also bankrolled deels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
And ever since Matthew Boulton bankrolled Watt’s engine—and got rich off it—folks with dreams and some extra cash have been eager to get a piece of the action.
From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026
He said in an interview that Reiner personally bankrolled much of the legal fight because he genuinely believed it was the right thing to do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2025
Larry Ellison, co-founder of software giant Oracle, is bankrolling his son’s ambitions to acquire a second major entertainment company in less than a year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Later, they bet on renewables, bankrolling enormous hydroelectric projects, solar fields and wind farms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
This situation leaves open the question of whether the public has a right to know who is bankrolling a nonprofit’s activity.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2025
Within just a few years of its inception, Substack has quietly discontinued its Substack Local effort after bankrolling its first round of winners.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2024
“Don’t even worry about it. I’m bankrolling this operation.”
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
