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It also has $430 billion worth of potential revenue lined up through some very large data-center contracts, primarily with OpenAI as the customer and some backstop support from Nvidia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Mejia said the city had been ill-advised to agree to be the financial backstop, should the Games lose money.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Should funding conditions for AI “hyperscalers” take a significant turn for the worse, some Wall Street investors and analysts anticipate a government backstop to emerge.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Matt Brill, head of North America investment-grade credit at Invesco, said it’s too early to talk about any backstop for credit.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

The batters in line automatically turned their eyes to the backstop, where the ball should be — but it wasn’t there.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

As Mr. Hargis puts it, America’s success—“our economic success, our cultural success across the world—it is all backstopped by our military success.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

California backstopped the federal subsidies for the lowest-income enrollees — mostly those for households earning up to 150% of the federal poverty level, or $23,940 for individuals and $49,500 for a family of four.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

U.S.-aligned leaders will see their policies backstopped, while the likes of Brazil have assets both sides want.

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

Paramount said its deal will be fully backstopped by the Ellison family and RedBird Capital, along with $54 billion of debt commitments from Bank of America, Citi and Apollo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025

Multiple Democratic- and Republican-run states, as well as Native American tribes, declared emergencies and backstopped tens of millions of dollars for food payments, while acknowledging that that still wouldn’t suffice.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2025

But backstopping markets removes a key risk and encourages more borrowing—especially for the hedge funds that now own trillions of dollars of U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Larger technology companies have started backstopping deals with AI startups to help them secure access.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

Warner’s board told shareholders to reject Paramount’s bid last week, citing concerns that the Ellisons weren’t fully backstopping the financing.

From Barron's ● Dec. 22, 2025

The companies told Congress this year they plan to roughly quadruple the list price of the shots, to about $130, because they are entering the private market and the government is no longer backstopping purchases.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 2, 2023

"I'll let that do most of the backstopping."

From Rival Pitchers of Oakdale by Morgan Scott