patronage
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“Our patronage definitely dropped because of the pandemic, and I don’t know that it’s ever completely recovered,” the librarian said, adding that “downtown, in general, hasn’t.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
His tenuous position owed everything to British patronage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
What he had run up against was a deep-rooted system of patronage controlled by a single family.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026
Dispensing patronage remained a partisan pleasure, recruitment a multipartisan necessity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
“How did you like my reading of the character, gentlemen?” said Mr. Waldengarver, almost, if not quite, with patronage.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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