backer
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“This is a big move,” Joel Cutler, co-founder of General Catalyst and an early Kushner backer, said of the Lakers deal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Adani, one of India's richest men and a vocal backer of Trump on social media, has been rocked in recent years by corporate fraud allegations and a stock crash.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Russia was a key backer of the Assad regime, and in the days after his fall, Assad released a statement confirming that he had fled there.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Microsoft seemed like an obvious early winner in AI: The company became OpenAI’s first major corporate backer through a $1 billion investment in 2019, aligning itself early on with one of the industry’s juggernauts.
From Barron's ● Jun. 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
Thanks to several shadowy backers, three days later, according to my source inside the courthouse, on Saturday, Aug. 8, at 12:35 p.m.,
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
He is the second man to be arrested over the plot, which has strained relations between Kyiv and Berlin - one of the key European backers for Ukraine's war effort.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Crowley and his backers had undertaken an intense late-July sprint to persuade Democrats to coalesce around him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
After all, El-Sayed recently had to plead with his backers not to take personal shots at Stevens and her accent online.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 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
