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Recent Examples of contributor Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors Westerns offer some of the most compelling TV around. Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 July 2025 Those ascendant role players are helping Toronto survive injuries to key contributors and rattle off its longest win streak since 2015. Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 9 July 2025 All opinions expressed by the CNBC Pro contributors are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of CNBC, NBC UNIVERSAL, their parent company or affiliates, and may have been previously disseminated by them on television, radio, internet or another medium. Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 9 July 2025 After considering hundreds of nominations from our readers and contributors, our editors whittled those down to this year’s magic 10. Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 28 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for contributor
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Noun
  • Too many fundraisers have never learned how to lead a donor through an investment-level conversation and a solicitation.
    Sherry Quam Taylor, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • In June, the Royal Charity Polo Cup cut ties with a donor who had reportedly attempted to sell private access to the Prince and Princess of Wales for $27,000.
    Logan Holland, People.com, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Yale Divinity School’s curriculum often prioritizes social justice over biblical exegesis, a shift that would likely dismay its benefactors.
    The Rev. Jake Dell, Hartford Courant, 7 July 2025
  • The fact that their benefactor — and half-brother — was a lawyer and Congressman may have shielded them from a resurgent Ku Klux Klan and some of the worst treatment legalized by the Black Codes.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • A week later, Valdes, known in her family as a giver, was dead after a shooting in Wynwood.
    Isabel Rivera, Miami Herald, 21 June 2025
  • The giver did not resent the recipient; the recipient respected the giver.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • Funders who are very interested in the potential of data to increase impact, such as effective altruists, philanthropists who emphasize outcomes, and some large foundations, may be willing to bear the costs so others don’t have to.
    George E. Mitchell, The Conversation, 20 June 2025
  • Education is the cause most favored by our altruists.
    Rana Wehbe Watson, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • To find a fairy godmother like that would be great.
    David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 27 June 2025
  • But nothing gives this adaptation — which otherwise might have easily been forgotten as a quirky '90s made-for-TV one-off — so much fairy dust as a glimmering Whitney Houston playing the best-ever fairy godmother.
    EW.com, EW.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • While Paytas’ Big Broadway Dream quickly sold out the St. James Theatre, donations of $5 to $25 to the Fund enters donators will be entered for a chance to win a front row pair of tickets.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The new group is actively looking for volunteers, members and donators, SAMENA Collective Membership Chairman Wali Qazizada said.
    Annika Bahnsen, Orange County Register, 19 July 2024

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