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backer

[bak-er] / ˈbæk ər /


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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

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

Gazprom publicly became the IBA’s financial backer, filling its coffers with tens of millions of dollars.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 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

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

Her backers see in her fierce loyalty and admire her eternal hunt for wage thieves to sue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

The bill’s backers insist that AM radio cannot vanish from the dashboard because it’s critical during emergencies.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

Its backers say the beavers have created new wetland habitats on the site, improved water quality and made the area more resilient to flooding and drought.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Financial backers of both institutions—the Chemical Foundation in Columbia’s case and William Crocker, a banking and railroad magnate, in Berkeley’s case—seemed eager to pony up funds to cover Sloan’s further research.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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