backer
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Shortly after he was appointed in January, his advisor and key backer Sergiy Sternenko was confident he could win over the military insiders to his new approach.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
Goldman Sachs is a key backer of TXSE.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
“Tech has been a long backer of his, but at the same time there is this growing national outcry against data centers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
A backer of the prime minister said, when Burnham had faced tough questions in the by-election campaign, "he's fallen apart".
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
Ever attuned to the ebb and flow of research funding, he recognized that the government stood to become as generous a financial backer as the medical foundations he had mined to build the sixty-inch.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
In California, backers of the wealth tax say the state could take in $100 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Investigators said the companies allegedly sought to conceal the identity of their Chinese financial backers while establishing "unauthorised" operations or "illegally" recruiting talent.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
OpenAI, an unprofitable private company, plans to lease the project; the $250 billion pledge would help its backers get better terms on the financing necessary to build it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
In his first term, about two-thirds of Trump’s backers approved strongly of his performance.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
Another challenge for Jim and Paul was to remain in close contact with core PIH backers.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
