sponsor

[Jonathan Lighter]

App. it means "contribute intangibly to, as by providing impetus,
justification, etc. ":

2010 Mary A. Favret _War at a Distance_ (Princeton: P.U.P.) 232: ...the
attacks of Sepetember 11, 2001. Striving to find an adequate response to
that violence and the wars it sponsored, Butler arrives at the thought that
her response must initiate [etc.]....

The author is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University.


JL


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