backer
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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
The philanthropic funder has since rebranded itself as Coefficient Giving, and is a prolific backer of AI safety nonprofits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 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
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
The move could be a step towards Musk's mission to build a self-sustaining city on Mars - a vision that has invited sceptics but also plenty of backers.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 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
Raman’s backers see her as someone much more likely to push hard to get the private nonprofit running the Olympics to make sure Angelenos benefit from the event.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 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
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