backing
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Even Rodrigo’s backing band, full of absolutely shredding women instrumentalists, played beside her on equal footing for exquisitely tasteful, post-punky revisions of songs across her three albums.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
It would mean backing a move towards an accession agreement.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Crowley has supported some restrictions on data centers but stopped short of backing a ban or pause.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The race immediately became a test of whether Trump’s backing could help Graham, a political neophyte known to voters only because of her last name, win a primary election in the deep-red state.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
I give them a squeeze before backing away.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
The only thing he requests is a tin of 112 players with adhesive backings.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
At that point, bank targets may be persuaded to do deals not because they need the liquidity, but to show they have the backings of large institutional investors.
From Reuters ● Mar. 14, 2023
Dennis Reed, a proprietor of Hi-Tek Redneck Karaoke & DJ Service, served as the M.C. while overseeing the sound system and musical backings.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
Ms. Kokoszka described the members as having “unselfishly donated their time, talents, fabrics, battings, backings, bindings and labels for the making of the quilts each of our honored guests will receive tonight.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 24, 2020
We make complicated floral patterns with a compass, we glue odd substances to cardboard backings: feathers, sequins, pieces of macaroni garishly dyed, lengths of drinking straw.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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