bankroll
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The lesson there isn’t that the size of the bankroll doesn’t matter, but that what really matters is how it’s spent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
And once Stark Industries and Wayne Enterprises bankroll their respective super-squads’ fortified headquarters, they attract the universe’s talent.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
After surviving an attempted ouster two years prior, chief Sam Altman had carved OpenAI into his nascent industry’s undisputed king and hitched himself closely to the much wealthier Microsoft to bankroll growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
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
She offered him another five dollars if he went back, and he built a small bankroll until he couldn’t deny he had found a true passion.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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Phil Knight, who bankrolls Oregon, turned Nike into an intercontinental empire that transformed the Ducks into a gridiron behemoth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 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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The high times, prosecutors seemed to imply, had been bankrolled by the Roebucks’ cash.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Hewlett bankrolled ELI’s 2018 workshops at Tianjin University, which was later placed on the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Amazon has also bankrolled a Manhattan Beach production services company, Innovative Dream.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
The LIV project, which pivoted to a more traditional 72-hole format this year, has been bankrolled by an eye-watering amount of money from PIF.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
The biopic was bankrolled by Daniel Vorcaro, a jailed banker who is accused of orchestrating one of Brazil's largest financial fraud cases.
From Barron's
Despite its decision to stop bankrolling LIV Golf, PIF added it "remains committed" to its "substantial current and future investments in various sports as a priority sector".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
That historic windfall has increasingly drawn Nvidia into bankrolling AI expansion through investments in startups.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
The organization has donated sporadically in recent years, according to Police Commission records, mostly bankrolling holiday parties and other smaller events aimed at boosting officer morale.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
These ads better be bankrolling the most distressing movie ever made.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2026
“Don’t even worry about it. I’m bankrolling this operation.”
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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