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In the past, courts have supplied this important backstop in other widespread policy challenges, such as the public health threats of tobacco use and the opioid epidemic, that lacked adequate legislative or regulatory responses.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

Nvidia has been at the center of a flurry of recent dealmaking activity, using its financial heft to backstop data-center financing and other deals with customers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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

Until when another ball was thrown out from behind the backstop, Deacon Hurd called back, “How many more you got in there?”

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

“Never before in this City’s history has a private organization been backstopped by the city of Los Angeles to carry out an endeavor of this size and scale,” Mejia wrote to LA28.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 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

Google has backstopped financing for projects involving Hut 8, Cipher Mining and TeraWulf, which are former crypto-mining companies that are now developing data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

The Senate proposal would also extend $10 million in coverage to credit unions, which have long shared similar deposit insurance limits as banks, albeit backstopped by separate funds.

From Barron's ● Dec. 18, 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

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

Nvidia also committed to purchase any unsold cloud-computing capacity from CoreWeave through 2032, effectively backstopping its customer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025

The Avalanche’s challengers in the Central range from the Stars to the Minnesota Wild, who still have Marc-Andre Fleury backstopping them and a couple of dynamic scorers in Kirill Kaprizov and Matt Boldy.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 3, 2023

"I'll let that do most of the backstopping."

From Rival Pitchers of Oakdale by Morgan Scott