financed

verb

past tense of finance
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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2
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 Before 2021, foreign aid financed roughly three-quarters of public expenditures. — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026 The financing There’s been very little disclosed about how this deal is being financed. — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 13 Aug. 2026 The film is a production of Braidmade Films, in co-production with Warboys Films, co-financed by the Polish Film Institute, in association with Think-Film Impact Production, and with the participation of Bird Street Productions. — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026 Berlin also financed a transfer of 15 Gepard systems from Doha completed in 2023. — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Berge ran an underdog, insurgent campaign against Cooke, who was more well-known and better financed. — Scott Bauer, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026 This funding has financed the trees, materials, coordination, planting and three-year stewardship of some 85,000 large canopy trees and 25,000 shrubs along streets and at nearly every San Jose school and park. — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2026 Drifter is produced and fully financed by Convergence Entertainment, the independent production and finance company founded by Randall Emmett and Joel Cohen, who also serve as producers on the film, in association with Dream Team Films. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2026 The Anora filmmaker described the film — which was financed by fashion house Self-Portrait —as both a love letter to his star and her native Malaysia. — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for financed
  1. funded
  2. endowed
  3. subsidized
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  • This budget will also have to determine long-term solutions for positions that are grant-funded, particularly in law enforcement.
    — Sofi Zeman August 11, Kansas City Star, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The organizations, including MoveUp Southeast Michigan, MoveUp LA, and MoveUp Washington, will operate on their own but stay funded by the Ballmers.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026
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  • Seeing an old bulky PC with a PC-DOS command line OS takes those of us of a certain age back to the heady days when computers were exciting and new, even though they had not yet been endowed with the eerie cognitive powers of LLMs.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • But they’re endowed with a fundamentally different intelligence, one shaped by a separate evolutionary path and defined by a nervous system that’s distributed throughout their bodies rather than centralized like that of the brains of most animals.
    — Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 29 July 2026
Definition of endowed
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  • Firms invest more to produce more to export more at lower or negative margins, subsidized by local governments whose own fiscal health depends on the factories’ staying open.
    — Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2026
  • In the 80s and 90s, even major teams had often been run on razor-thin margins (and were subsidized by owners).
    — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 31 July 2026
Definition of subsidized

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