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It also has $430 billion worth of potential revenue lined up through some very large data-center contracts, primarily with OpenAI as the customer and some backstop support from Nvidia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Mejia said the city had been ill-advised to agree to be the financial backstop, should the Games lose money.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Matt Brill, head of North America investment-grade credit at Invesco, said it’s too early to talk about any backstop for credit.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Should funding conditions for AI “hyperscalers” take a significant turn for the worse, some Wall Street investors and analysts anticipate a government backstop to emerge.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Until when another ball was thrown out from behind the backstop, Deacon Hurd called back, “How many more you got in there?”

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

As Mr. Hargis puts it, America’s success—“our economic success, our cultural success across the world—it is all backstopped by our military success.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Vegas’s two regular starters, including the one that backstopped them during their championship run in 2023, were mired in the worst seasons of their careers in the desert.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

California backstopped the federal subsidies for the lowest-income enrollees — mostly those for households earning up to 150% of the federal poverty level, or $23,940 for individuals and $49,500 for a family of four.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

U.S.-aligned leaders will see their policies backstopped, while the likes of Brazil have assets both sides want.

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

Multiple Democratic- and Republican-run states, as well as Native American tribes, declared emergencies and backstopped tens of millions of dollars for food payments, while acknowledging that that still wouldn’t suffice.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2025

Warner’s board told shareholders to reject Paramount’s bid last week, citing concerns that the Ellisons weren’t fully backstopping the financing.

From Barron's ● Dec. 22, 2025

How the U.S. government is backstopping the tech boom.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2025

Nvidia also committed to purchase any unsold cloud-computing capacity from CoreWeave through 2032, effectively backstopping its customer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025

The Avalanche’s challengers in the Central range from the Stars to the Minnesota Wild, who still have Marc-Andre Fleury backstopping them and a couple of dynamic scorers in Kirill Kaprizov and Matt Boldy.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 3, 2023

With Darrow doing most of the backstopping, and Larson ready to fill in any moment he’s needed, you’re going to keep a five-thousand-dollar catcher on the bench for a pinch hitter!

From Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager by Burt L. Standish