backing

Example Sentences

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Saudi Arabia’s flagship wealth fund is known for backing costly ideas overflowing with ambition, from building a futuristic city to creating a golf circuit to rival the PGA Tour.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

They were backing away from the playoffs, not heading toward them.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

Shares have since bounced back after the company announced in February it was backing out of the bidding war by not matching Paramount’s latest offer.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026

LIV is facing the possibility of imminent closure with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund on the verge of pulling its backing for LIV, according to a person familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

In California he fell among literary people and, as he still had a little of the fifty thousand left, in a short time he was backing a review of the Arts.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway