backing
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Fury's claim the bout could be off follows his post on social media earlier this month suggesting that Joshua, 36, was backing out of the fight, before calling for a third match-up with Oleksandr Usyk.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
A Southern California man accidentally hit and killed his 6-year-old son while backing out of the family’s driveway in a Tesla Cybertruck, according to police reports.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Healthcare investor Catalio Capital Management led the latest financing round alongside technology funds such as Iconiq, which includes backing from former Johnson & Johnson Chief Executive Alex Gorsky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The spokesperson adds: "We are backing British businesses and supporting our defence industrial base with 85% of our defence spending currently staying in the UK, driving reindustrialisation and making defence an engine for growth."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
“But in the meantime, I’ve got to keep the cameras on me until the financial backing starts rolling in.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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
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
Schematic facial features, like a distinctive square chin, and the numerous dashes of brown tape with which they’re affixed to white backings, give them the friendly mix-and-match appeal of trading cards.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 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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