backer
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As the company surged in value and secured Nvidia as a backer, other miners quickly moved to follow its playbook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
And so you’d expect, given that the company is a major backer and promoter of artificial-intelligence and technology companies.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
SEIU-UHW West is the primary backer of Californians for Responsible Healthcare and the Yes on 44 campaign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Private equity backer TSG, which took a 22% stake in the brewer in 2017, is set to lose £27.6m.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 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
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Several large labor unions were big backers of Proposition 40.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Other backers include playwright and screenwriter James Graham, who wrote stage shows including Ink, Quiz and Dear England, as well as Happy Valley creator Sally Wainwright and The Crown's Peter Morgan.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Powerus founders said the Trumps are enthusiastic backers of an American manufacturing renaissance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
DiCamillo said backers of a ballot measure also should be concerned any time support registers below 50%, since voters who are undecided or unsure tend to vote no.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
For years his intricate affairs had rolled along smoothly; he and his partners, his backers, his help, the people on his team—they had all proceeded cautiously, carefully, conservatively, successfully.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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