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
Prosecutor Alexandra Healy KC said the former minister improperly allowed powerful men with lucrative government contracts in the oil business to bankroll her extravagant lifestyle.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Mejia said Sokoloff’s mother — married to Jonathan Sokoloff, managing partner of private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners — was trying to bankroll the seat for her son.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund will no longer bankroll LIV Golf after this season, signaling the league’s end in its current form.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Sportswriters argued that the rich event was a farce arranged to pad Seabiscuit’s bankroll.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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As for the prospects of enticing producers to ramp up output to where it was a quarter-century ago, Brownfield said, “I just don’t see it, unless the U.S. basically bankrolls them.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 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
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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
Executives at the Saudi Public Investment Fund, which bankrolled Six Flags Qiddiya City, have told others that things are “business as usual,” according to people familiar with those discussions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
Jack Walker, the man who bankrolled Rovers' Premier League title four years earlier, was tearful in the Ewood Park terraces.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 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
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 Arctic is the ultimate adversary,” said Eric Slesinger, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who now runs a venture-capital firm bankrolling defense startups, including some trying to master arctic fighting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
Musk is not the only tech executive bankrolling the effort.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2024
“Don’t even worry about it. I’m bankrolling this operation.”
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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