backstop
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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
Nvidia recently teamed up with six Wall Street firms on a $500 billion AI-financing plan to backstop lending to customers who need its chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Expect that cost to grow as investors internalize the notion that the Fed may not always allow itself to become a backstop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
I’m supposed to use this time to make my own notes on the radio interview yesterday—as a kind of backstop in case the actual broadcast doesn’t match up with what v.L. remembers of it.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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
The company said the deal would be backstopped by the Ellison family and RedBird Capital, and debt fully committed by Bank of America, Citi, and Apollo.
From Barron's ● Dec. 8, 2025
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
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
How the U.S. government is backstopping the tech boom.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2025
Nvidia also committed to purchase any unsold cloud-computing capacity from CoreWeave through 2032, effectively backstopping its customer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
The settlement resolved a dispute over the amount of new stock that Cineworld's lenders would receive for backstopping the exit financing.
From Reuters ● May 2, 2023
"I'll let that do most of the backstopping."
From Rival Pitchers of Oakdale by Morgan Scott
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