backer

Example Sentences

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Clifton’s former backer, Meieran, says he doesn’t think things are going to bounce back enough to warrant more massive investment.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

However, China was the election's biggest backer, analysts say, and discussions over stalled Beijing-backed infrastructure projects are now being revived.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

But a backer of the bill, Congresswoman Nancy Picón Martínez, said that the mining industry was being portrayed "as if it were a monster".

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

Plans changed again before the scheduled launch in early 2021, when Credit Suisse’s hedge-fund business imploded; so he found another backer, a large hedge fund named Squarepoint Capital.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 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