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 Only the Kansas City Current have their own stadium, financed by co-owners Angie and Chris Long, as well as Patrick and Brittany Mahomes. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2026 The cohort driving the current wave was largely bought between 2018 and 2022, often at peak multiples, financed with cheap, pre-rate-hike debt. — Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026 Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images DeepSeek, the lab that put Chinese artificial intelligence on the map last January, has long been financed by High-Flyer Quant, its founder Liang Wenfeng’s hedge fund. — Anniek Bao,elaine Yu, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026 Similar to the situation in the 1920s, these deficits financed the reconstruction of postwar economies as resources poured into infrastructure and manufacturing. — Michael Pettis, Foreign Affairs, 28 Aug. 2026 Some 10 projects will be shown to prospective brand partners for possible development and production, letting companies get involved before projects are fully financed or produced. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Aug. 2026 Investigators were still tracing financial records to determine whether companies financed or ordered the land clearing, signaling the probe could expand beyond those arrested. — ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026 Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley showed earlier this year that California was spending $300 million a year just in development fees on subsidized housing, enough to have financed another 1,250 apartments each year. — Rob Davis, ProPublica, 21 Aug. 2026 In 1948, that arrangement took enduring form as the Music Performance Trust Fund, which has since financed free public performances by union musicians across the United States and Canada. — David Woodard, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026
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  1. funded
  2. endowed
  3. subsidized
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  • The state law tightened bail rules for violent offenses, changed protocols for mental health evaluations and funded additional prosecutors in Mecklenburg County.
    — Josh Bergeron, Charlotte Observer, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Johnson said moving some of those funds would not endanger any ongoing projects funded by the American Rescue Plan Act.
    — A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
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  • The show was considered an outlier in its generally sympathetic take on Hill and his conservative views, as well as in terms of the agency with which the show’s creators endowed its working- and middle-class characters.
    — Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Someone who might have the answers is fan-favorite franchise staple Elise (Lin Shaye), a medium who commutes between both worlds, here via the body of a tattoo artist (Maisie Richardson-Sellers) endowed with paranormal gifts.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of endowed
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  • Under Gavi’s cofinancing model, low- and middle-income countries’ initial vaccine purchases are subsidized by contributions from high-income countries and other investors.
    — Kathryn H. Jacobsen, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Penguin Random House, largest seller of books, and most eager to sell them best, testified in court that the sales of only 4 percent of its books effectively subsidized the rest.
    — M. C. Mah, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of subsidized

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“Financed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/financed. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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