backer
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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
A backer of the prime minister said, when Burnham had faced tough questions in the by-election campaign, "he's fallen apart".
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
It was not Su’s only foray into the space industry; his company has been a high-profile backer of some of SpaceX’s Chinese competitors.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026
The U.S. is the Lebanese Armed Forces’s biggest backer, providing more than $3 billion in funding since 2006 and offering training for Lebanese troops.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
I acted in the capacity of backer, or best-man, to the bridegroom; while a little limp pew-opener in a soft bonnet like a baby’s, made a feint of being the bosom friend of Miss Skiffins.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Some operators have been forced to seek deeper-pocketed backers to fund their next phase of expansion, according to several people working on the deals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
However, Moraff and other Platner backers seem to have ended their assessment there.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026
Harborne is one of the party's most important financial backers, having donated £15m to Reform since the start of last year.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Dias said that backers of noncitizen voting need to build a broad coalition — grassroots organizations, election officials, lawyers for the city — before taking the proposal to voters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 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
