bankroll
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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
Prosecutor Alexandra Healy KC said the former minister improperly allowed powerful men with lucrative government contracts in the oil business to bankroll her extravagant lifestyle.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Big Tech may increasingly sell stock to bankroll $820 billion AI boom.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 5, 2026
It has also co-opted the economy, so that Sudan’s many riches bankroll the belligerents even as most Sudanese are impoverished.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 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
One Saudi source told us that the speculation could be linked to the publication on Thursday of a new four-year strategy for the country's sovereign wealth fund PIF, which bankrolls LIV.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
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
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
So far, the Hangzhou-based firm has been largely bankrolled by founder Liang Wenfeng’s own cash and profit from High-Flyer, the hedge fund that he co-founded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
JD Vance converted to Catholicism in 2019, during a time when he was being heavily bankrolled by esoteric Catholic billionaire Peter Thiel.
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2026
Jack Walker, the man who bankrolled Rovers' Premier League title four years earlier, was tearful in the Ewood Park terraces.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
The business bankrolled Nihill’s early days in comedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
Humain, launched in May, is bankrolled by Saudi's powerful Public Investment Fund, which has played a key role in financing the kingdom's so-called gigaprojects -- major developments aimed at boosting and diversifying its oil-reliant economy.
From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025
Obrokta’s son had spent many years as a middle-class child with an absent father, but his teammates knew him only as a rich kid whose father was bankrolling the squad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
These ads better be bankrolling the most distressing movie ever made.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2026
City National Bank has been sued for more than $770 million for allegedly bankrolling a Hollywood Ponzi scheme, the latest in a series of controversies involving one of L.A.’s best-known banks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2024
Musk is not the only tech executive bankrolling the effort.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2024
"Scott's bankrolling us. His mom keeps a change jar, so we've got plenty."
From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies
