How to Use contributor in a Sentence

contributor

noun
  • Since, however, the redshirt freshman has been a key contributor for the Huskies.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Martial went on to play three years of basketball for Murphy and was a key contributor as both a junior and senior.
    Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Bruce Schoenfeld is a frequent contributor to the magazine who lives in Colorado.
    Bruce Schoenfeld, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Inflation is a major contributor to this year’s higher capital spending plans, Patel said.
    Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Increasing skepticism has arisen in recent years because of the many drug trial letdowns related to amyloid as a key contributor to Alzheimer’s.
    Gary Stix, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2023
  • And there are still 26 days to go for more contributors to weigh in.
    Lawrence Specker | , al, 25 Apr. 2023
  • And the number of global airline flights, a major contributor to the release of heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, is on track to surpass pre-pandemic levels this year.
    The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2023
  • In March 2021, Lara joined Fox News as a paid contributor.
    Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Senior libero Nate Carter is the lone contributor from the state-runner-up team.
    Nate Marrero, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Each year our staff and contributors round up their best gift ideas for cooks, eaters, and the kitchen-curious.
    Noah Kaufman, Bon Appétit, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Housing has been the No. 1 contributor to still-high inflation in the U.S.
    Justin Lahart, WSJ, 22 June 2023
  • The Reds have had a rotating cast of key contributors who have stepped up during the team’s best stretch of baseball since 2021.
    Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 1 June 2023
  • All contributors are listed at the bottom of this page.
    Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The second biggest group of contributors to Schiff have been lawyers and law firms, at $1.7 million.
    David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 2 Mar. 2024
  • West will be enshrined for a third time later this year as a contributor.
    Amy Maetzold, CBS News, 12 June 2024
  • Price’s own employees were among the largest contributors to the group seeking to keep her in office.
    Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Legge, a transfer from Howard, and Shanley will be key contributors in the midfield.
    Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 2 Sep. 2023
  • With the new Notes on Media option, contributors can flag images as well as text.
    Marco Marcelline, PCMAG, 31 May 2023
  • Carson Ward was a big contributor with nine points and nine rebounds.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Saira Mueller, one of our gaming contributors, admonished me about that in the office the other day.
    Michael Calore, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Many of the series’ contributors talked to VIBE about the importance of having a piece of media that acknowledges how far the league has come.
    Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Spencer says the contributors were happy to work on an album of which all proceeds will go to Price’s family.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Animals are the theme of this year’s archive issue, which celebrates the work of New Yorker contributors across the years.
    Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The White family has been a frequent, major contributor to Purdue over the years.
    Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Aaron Timms is a frequent contributor to The New Republic.
    Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 18 Apr. 2023
  • One of the big contributors to the record-breaking global temperatures over the past year – El Niño – is nearly gone, and its opposite, La Niña, is on the way.
    Pedro Dinezio, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2024
  • Adobe is one of a few companies that pay contributors to submit content to train their AI models.
    Laura Bratton, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The food system is a major contributor to climate change, and nearly one-third of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are tied to the global food system.
    Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The Connecticut River has become a scenic and wildlife-rich, $1 billion a year contributor to the state economy.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Forbes senior contributor Edward Segal writes this is yet another big hit for a company that has been trying to rebrand itself as people’s relationship with weight, health and weight loss drugs are in significant flux.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024

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