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
Until the war, the Gulf’s plentiful land, strong state backing and easy permitting were clear advantages.
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
“I just needed to tell my friend something,” I said, backing away from the line of moving men.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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
On the doors to the offices themselves, a few backings of peeled-off stickers remained.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2021
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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