bankroll
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The Ellisons’ generosity helped bankroll player acquisitions and opened doors for Jolin’s behind-the-scenes involvement in Michigan sports teams over the past three years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The lesson there isn’t that the size of the bankroll doesn’t matter, but that what really matters is how it’s spent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
And once Stark Industries and Wayne Enterprises bankroll their respective super-squads’ fortified headquarters, they attract the universe’s talent.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
LIV is reeling from the withdrawal of Saudi Arabian financial backing from the end of this season after the Kingdom ploughed in more than £3.75bn to bankroll its first three years.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
She offered him another five dollars if he went back, and he built a small bankroll until he couldn’t deny he had found a true passion.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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One Saudi source told us that the speculation could be linked to the publication on Thursday of a new four-year strategy for the country's sovereign wealth fund PIF, which bankrolls LIV.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
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
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
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Women now have access to greater financial freedom, which leads to more choice and opportunity, “but it also creates dissonance when someone is expecting to be bankrolled by a partner,” Hoffman said.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
For nearly two decades, Roman Abramovich was the most famous Russian oligarch in the UK, welcomed in London where he bought Chelsea Football Club in 2003 and bankrolled the club's most successful period.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
It was a $3 million-per-year effort bankrolled in part by Larry Ellison and his wife, Jolin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
The high times, prosecutors seemed to imply, had been bankrolled by the Roebucks’ cash.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Amazon has also bankrolled a Manhattan Beach production services company, Innovative Dream.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
That historic windfall has increasingly drawn Nvidia into bankrolling AI expansion through investments in startups.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
The decision by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund to stop bankrolling LIV Golf at the end of the season has plunged the future of the breakaway series into doubt.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
The members hugged him back, from bankrolling his college tuition to sending him generous gifts when he retired in 2013 and donations when his beloved wife, Cheryl, died in 2020 after suffering a massive stroke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
These ads better be bankrolling the most distressing movie ever made.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2026
“Don’t even worry about it. I’m bankrolling this operation.”
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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