backer

Example Sentences

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While investors’ appetite for space has grown in recent years, NASA, through its contracts, remains a major backer of everything from satellite makers to launch companies.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

Germany, Ukraine’s largest European backer, ordered eight new Patriot systems in 2024 at roughly €2 billion apiece, equivalent to $2.33 billion, but has yet to receive even a provisional delivery date, German officials say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

The analyst is a particularly ardent backer of Blue Owl, which he initiated at Outperform in 2023.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

He wonders whether it might be best for optics if the disgraced financier — the biggest financial backer to Brockman’s nonprofit Edge Foundation — didn’t attend after all.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 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