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backer

[bak-er] / ˈbæk ər /


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The business owner would like to see more investment and support "for the local community", but is also a big backer of a new M4 relief road - "100% for it," he said.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

Washington does not officially recognise Taiwan, but is the island territory's main security backer -- though the tone of that support has softened under US President Donald Trump.

From Barron's • Apr. 26, 2026

“Marty Supreme” director Josh Safdie cast Catsimatidis as Christopher Galanis, a financial backer of the table tennis phenom played by Timothée Chalamet in the film.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

Mr. Barr was an early backer of Mr. Trump and chaired his 2024 Kentucky primary campaign.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 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