backstop
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This is an example of how a trusted contact on a financial account can be a backstop against elder fraud.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
In contrast to the 5% share-price slide that followed news of Nvidia’s planned Ohio backstop, investors greeted Kress’s Wednesday remarks with an 8.7% jump—good for the second-largest one-day market cap gain in history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The world’s largest company by market cap also recently scaled back a proposed financial backstop for OpenAI’s massive data-center project in Ohio amid concerns about how investors would react to the potential liability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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
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
Vegas’s two regular starters, including the one that backstopped them during their championship run in 2023, were mired in the worst seasons of their careers in the desert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
"The market firmly bought into Wednesday's solid earnings story from the hyperscalers, with risk appetite also backstopped by the broader path on the geopolitical front continuing to lead towards de-escalation," said Pepperstone's Michael Brown.
From Barron's ● May 1, 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
But backstopping markets removes a key risk and encourages more borrowing—especially for the hedge funds that now own trillions of dollars of U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
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
How the U.S. government is backstopping the tech boom.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2025
The settlement resolved a dispute over the amount of new stock that Cineworld's lenders would receive for backstopping the exit financing.
From Reuters ● May 2, 2023
With Darrow doing most of the backstopping, and Larson ready to fill in any moment he’s needed, you’re going to keep a five-thousand-dollar catcher on the bench for a pinch hitter!
From Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager by Burt L. Standish
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