backing

Example Sentences

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Some big investors are backing away from private equity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

With MLB backing the Athletes Unlimited Softball League, or AUSL, for a second season and Ng back to steer it, sustainable professional softball is starting to feel real.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

But Wall Street is backing the company to make a comeback with a raft of initiation notes on Monday.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

And that backing can give them significantly more power and influence than a priest, typically a figure lower on the church’s organizational chart, would normally have.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2026

Around me the women were backing away, so there was a space between us.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff