backstop
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In the end, Nvidia agreed to backstop less than half of the original amount discussed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Mejia said the city had been ill-advised to agree to be the financial backstop, should the Games lose money.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Shortly afterward, Nvidia agreed to backstop a massive Ohio data center project by OpenAI that could leave the company on the hook for billions of dollars if plans to lease it fall through.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Should funding conditions for AI “hyperscalers” take a significant turn for the worse, some Wall Street investors and analysts anticipate a government backstop to emerge.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Another new ball from behind the backstop and Willis roughing it up again.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
Google, for instance, has backstopped some data centers for Anthropic, in part to increase sales of its in-house AI chips, known as tensor processing units.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
In 2020, they backstopped money market mutual funds.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
Paramount’s deal requires $41 billion in equity, backstopped by Larry Ellison’s family and RedBird Capital Partners, according to a regulatory filing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
Multiple Democratic- and Republican-run states, as well as Native American tribes, declared emergencies and backstopped tens of millions of dollars for food payments, while acknowledging that that still wouldn’t suffice.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2025
He backstopped the Kraken’s best run of the season, the only reason they were still in playoff contention.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2024
Warner’s board told shareholders to reject Paramount’s bid last week, citing concerns that the Ellisons weren’t fully backstopping the financing.
From Barron's ● Dec. 22, 2025
In recent calls with U.S. officials, European officials have stressed that they can only offer Ukraine clear security commitments once they know what role the U.S. would play in backstopping those plans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
How the U.S. government is backstopping the tech boom.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2025
The deal doesn’t go into effect until the 2024-25 season, but Ilya Sorokin received $66 million over the following eight years to continue backstopping the New York Islanders.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 3, 2023
"I'll let that do most of the backstopping."
From Rival Pitchers of Oakdale by Morgan Scott
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