backing
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Lula tends to have more support among Catholics while Bolsonaro has the backing of a booming Evangelical population.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Even so, institutions are backing away after they, too, needed liquidity these funds don’t provide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The effort fell about 9,000 signatures short despite backing from Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, the American Hotel and Lodging Assn. and others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
She has commissioned an independent review into the response and recovery, and said she is backing calls for a change in international rules about how plastic nurdles are transported.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
The others would echo his words or make their voices sound like drums or musical instruments backing up his sermon—although the Vapostori used no actual instruments in their ceremonies.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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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