backer

Example Sentences

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In February 2010, he spent several months in Venezuela, a major Cuban ally and financial backer.

From Barron's • Jun. 21, 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

It was not Su’s only foray into the space industry; his company has been a high-profile backer of some of SpaceX’s Chinese competitors.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2026

It also counts Point72 Ventures, the venture unit of Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management, as a backer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 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