backing
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Ed Sheeran's backing band and all of his support acts have pulled out of the artist's US tour.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Irish folk group Beoga also said on Instagram it will no longer serve as Sheeran’s backing band.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Barings in Charlotte, N.C., is backing healthcare investor Soleus Capital with a senior secured financing facility that is secured by a portfolio of royalties from commercial-stage pharmaceutical products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Anthropic rival OpenAI, in addition to backing the call for a pause, pushed its initial public offering into next year.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
He was confident he could frighten North Vietnam into backing down.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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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