1
as in funded
to provide money for
a local business kindly financed the high school band's trip to New York City
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as in endowed
to furnish (as an institution) with a regular source of income
established a fund to finance a visiting lecturer position at the local college
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Recent Examples of financed
The move would be financed utilizing STAR bonds, which would be paid off over 30 years using new state sales tax revenues — and potentially also local taxes — generated within a dedicated district.
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Sofi Zeman
january 7, Kansas City Star, 7 Jan. 2026
Secret recordings detailed in the indictment describe how Tricolor leaders financed their business by lying about inventory and their customer base.
—Samuel O'Neal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Jan. 2026
Executive producers include Arnon Milchan, Yariv Milchan, and Natalie Lehmann for New Regency Productions, which controls the rights to the IP and financed the 2004 film; Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, and Tracey Cook for Chernin Entertainment; and Killen and Scott Pennington for Chapter Eleven.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2026
Many of Stalcup’s purchases of apartment complexes are financed with securities registered with the SEC.
—Paul Flahive, Austin American Statesman, 6 Jan. 2026
Bear Stearns shareholders got $10 a share, while thousands of families who were sold toxic subprime mortgages financed through Bear Stearns—the same mortgages that the Fed refused to regulate—lost their homes.
—Aaron Klein, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2026
When the Journal Sentinel asked ATC how the power lines would be financed, the company indicated that an unspecified portion of the costs could be spread across all electricity customers in the state over time.
—Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 30 Dec. 2025
The company, which is financed by private equity investors, has about 30 branches across the country.
—Fred Schulte, Miami Herald, 30 Dec. 2025
The project will cost more than $150 million and is financed privately by the Bhathals.
—Asli Pelit, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
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What is supposed to be the best trip ever, funded by R&R, immediately starts to go south.—
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In a small and limited study funded by K Health, Cedars-Sinai researchers compared several hundred diagnosis and treatment recommendations made by AI to those made by physicians.—
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But only protein is endowed with a special kind of redemptive power.—
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Like a superhero movie set in a small town, Encanto is the story of a Colombian family whose children are endowed with magical abilities.—
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For decades, blue states had quietly subsidized red ones, in an unspoken exchange that once passed for national unity.—
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Colorado’s Child Care Assistance Program Since the late 1990s, the Colorado Child Care Assistance Program has subsidized the cost of child care for parents and caregivers with lower incomes who are working, searching for work or pursuing education.—
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“Financed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/financed. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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