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backer

[bak-er] / ˈbæk ər /


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Another backer is Jump Trading Group, which recently hired a team to launch its compute-trading business when the futures go live.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The United States is Taiwan's most important security backer and biggest arms supplier.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

SEIU-UHW West is the primary backer of Californians for Responsible Healthcare and the Yes on 44 campaign.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Private equity backer TSG, which took a 22% stake in the brewer in 2017, is set to lose £27.6m.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Ever attuned to the ebb and flow of research funding, he recognized that the government stood to become as generous a financial backer as the medical foundations he had mined to build the sixty-inch.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Prop. 40’s backers estimate it will affect at least 200 to 300 people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

“They’re like company-specific AI labs,” with the ETFs holding shares of their partners or backers, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

The ad buy is six figures but could grow, according to its backers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

The move could be a step towards Musk's mission to build a self-sustaining city on Mars - a vision that has invited sceptics but also plenty of backers.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

In the United States as in Europe, many of Darwin’s most ardent backers were successful tradespeople whose hobby was butterfly or beetle collecting.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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