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as in customers
a person who buys a product or uses a service from a business
a restaurant patron
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as in sponsors
a person who takes the responsibility for some other person or thing
the wealthy philanthropist is one of the city's most generous patrons of its symphony orchestra
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as in donors
one that helps another with gifts or money
the patron for the museum's current blockbuster is the city's biggest banking institution
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Recent Examples of patrons
Performing new music at the Williamsburg, Brooklyn, bar’s long-running open mic is just a typical Sunday night for him and many other patrons.
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Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2026
In addition, there will be a chance to sample foods from several Downtown restaurants and mingle with the business owners and patrons.
—Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
Dees won the landmark civil rights case when a federal court ruled that the city’s YMCA location was wrongly excluding black patrons from accessing its facilities and ordered the site to end its discriminatory practices.
—Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 25 Apr. 2026
Crack into a can of craft beer, gaze at the wall plastered with polaroids of smiling patrons, and tuck into an engrossing read on one of the tweed armchairs.
—Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2026
Mirikitani urged his patrons to add their signatures to his untitled collages, sometimes in exchange for a photocopy of the day’s newspaper or a donation of art supplies).
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
While patrons waited in line, employees behind a rectangular hole in the brick wall piled baguettes high with pastrami, salami, garlic aioli and other fixings.
—Jenna Thompson
april 24, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2026
Hotels used in talks last week have already asked patrons leave as the country shudders into another quasi-lockdown.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 19 Apr. 2026
The unassuming Highlands location has greeted patrons with its signature green awning since 2011.
—Usa Today Network, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026
Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2026
In addition, there will be a chance to sample foods from several Downtown restaurants and mingle with the business owners and patrons.
—Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
Dees won the landmark civil rights case when a federal court ruled that the city’s YMCA location was wrongly excluding black patrons from accessing its facilities and ordered the site to end its discriminatory practices.
—Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 25 Apr. 2026
Crack into a can of craft beer, gaze at the wall plastered with polaroids of smiling patrons, and tuck into an engrossing read on one of the tweed armchairs.
—Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2026
Mirikitani urged his patrons to add their signatures to his untitled collages, sometimes in exchange for a photocopy of the day’s newspaper or a donation of art supplies).
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
While patrons waited in line, employees behind a rectangular hole in the brick wall piled baguettes high with pastrami, salami, garlic aioli and other fixings.
—Jenna Thompson
april 24, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2026
Hotels used in talks last week have already asked patrons leave as the country shudders into another quasi-lockdown.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 19 Apr. 2026
The unassuming Highlands location has greeted patrons with its signature green awning since 2011.
—Usa Today Network, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for patrons
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In 1933, a writer for this magazine visited Saliger and reviewed letters from satisfied customers.—
Shayla Love,
New Yorker,
1 May 2026
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McDonald’s said visual appeal — think bright colors and foams — and drinks as a form of self-expression are increasingly important to customers.—
Dee-Ann Durbin,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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Players and coaches have become maddeningly mealy-mouthed, striving to avoid upsetting agents, sponsors, owners, fans, thin-skinned politicians, and whoever else might object.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
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Of that $203,000, about $30,0000 had been offset by donations from sponsors Arbella and Liberty Mutual.—
David Wade,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2026
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In The Lever, Luke Goldstein and Katya Schwenk profiled Majority Democrats, one of the post-2024 groups set up by donors who think the Democrats need strategies and language that will win back less culturally liberal voters.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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This story was produced with financial support from Trish and Dan Bell and donors in South Florida’s Jewish and Muslim communities, including Khalid and Diana Mirza and the Mohsin and Fauzia Jaffer Foundation, in partnership with Journalism Funding Partners.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2026
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The center is currently seeking state money to help pay for a program to hire homeless clients to minimum wage jobs cleaning the community, hoping to give people a boost toward better-paying employment down the line.—
Ryan Gillespie,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 Apr. 2026
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Never mind that the case counsellor appeared to have no other clients except for me.—
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
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Whitecaps rally Outside the FIFA Congress was a small rally of about 100 supporters of the Vancouver Whitecaps, protesting the possible relocation of the Major League Soccer team.—
Anne M. Peterson,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2026
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Family members, coaches, friends and other supporters of the finalists and scholarship program are welcome to request a ticket to attend.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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That’s the gold standard of cancer designations that allows patients and donators alike to understand Sylvester’s standards.—
Dave Hyde,
Sun Sentinel,
26 Feb. 2026
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Amazon owner Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sanchez Bezos have reportedly invited guests to a Saturday night party preceding Monday’s Met Gala, which the couple is co-chairing.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
2 May 2026
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With the house emptied of living (and costumed) guests, its furnishings, in all their liveliness, appear only to mask an unnatural torpor.—
Olivia Kan-Sperling,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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These include decisions by a hostile California judiciary which, especially in the last two decades, have sided with the government and its special interest benefactors by creating loopholes that significantly weakened taxpayer protections that had stood for over 40 years.—
Jon Coupal,
Oc Register,
26 Apr. 2026
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The filmmakers reserved their incisive commentary not for Wintour or her staff, but for their notable friends and benefactors The Bezoses.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
23 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Patrons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patrons. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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