backer

Example Sentences

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Saudi Arabia, which supports the government, and the United Arab Emirates, the RSF’s top backer, have both become re-export hubs for gum, processing it into goods exported to Asia and Europe.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

While the United States switched official diplomatic relations from Taipei to Beijing nearly 50 years ago, Washington is Taipei's most important security backer.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

OpenAI won its legal tussle with its former backer Elon Musk on Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

A former minister and Burnham backer said: "He has committed to the rules as they are. It is totally essential. He understands the cost of borrowing is a huge constraint on government."

From BBC • May 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