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Examples of seed money in a Sentence
He provided seed money for the campaign.
Recent Examples on the Web
Kathryn Phillips, a workforce expert at the California Health Care Foundation, said there isn't enough seed money for community groups to hire workers and pay for new technology platforms.
—Angela Hart, NPR, 14 May 2024
That seed money included auctioning off a complete run of Mickey Mantle cards.
—Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2024
According to Whitesell’s new employment agreement, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in conjunction with the take-private, Silver Lake is committing $250 million in seed money for a new media company to be led by the Endeavor executive chairman.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
That’s because Mnuchin got $1 billion in seed money from a Saudi sovereign wealth fund controlled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the New York Times reported in 2022.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
Shortly after the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, Mavis and Jay Leno donated $100,000 as seed money for the Feminist Majority Foundation’s global women’s rights program.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2024
The Israelis learned — and the Americans now say much of this publicly — that Hamas’s governing Shura Council had given Mr. Odeh seed money to build and manage a portfolio of companies.
—Justin Scheck, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
The lack of representation begins with lack of capital, as Black and Latino people hoping to break into real estate development often can’t even access the seed money to get started.
—Colette Coleman, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
That year, the agency awarded $3 million in seed money to the nonprofit Medical Device Innovation Consortium to establish a center that would bring together information from electronic medical records, insurance claims and medical registries.
—Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1943, in the meaning defined above
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“Seed money.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seed%20money. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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