benefactor
Example Sentences
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Jazz haunts with debts owed to its creators, and has a knack for revivals, collectives, new venues in the old forms, and stalwart clubs revivified by benefactors and grant funding.
From Los Angeles Times
Singapore’s government offers grants, tax exemptions and equity investments to new companies, making the city-state “one of the most generous benefactors of tech entrepreneurs anywhere in the world,” Mr.
The gift pushes Duffield’s total philanthropy to the school to $550 million, making him one of the largest university benefactors in the country.
The late T. Boone Pickens, the chief benefactor for Oklahoma State, built an oil fortune that he dispersed to the Cowboys.
Each of the dance numbers feels distinctive while also serving some purpose in developing the story: from an early benefactor’s home or the deck of a ship, to a forest or meeting house.
From Los Angeles Times
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