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backer

[bak-er] / ˈbæk ər /


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And so you’d expect, given that the company is a major backer and promoter of artificial-intelligence and technology companies.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 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

He was an early backer of the AI lab DeepMind and served on its board before it was acquired by Google in 2014.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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

Several large labor unions were big backers of Proposition 40.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

Other backers include playwright and screenwriter James Graham, who wrote stage shows including Ink, Quiz and Dear England, as well as Happy Valley creator Sally Wainwright and The Crown's Peter Morgan.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

After the market turned, Nvidia and the other potential backers began demanding more stringent terms, these people said, delaying Nscale’s plans to file a revised IPO prospectus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

One of its large backers is Good Ventures, a foundation set up by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife, Cari Tuna.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Another challenge for Jim and Paul was to remain in close contact with core PIH backers.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French


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