backing
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Elon Musk, whose xAI developed the Grok chatbot, over the weekend joined Altman in backing Amodei’s call for caution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Taking the California Democratic Party convention stage in February, Barrera, president of the San Diego Unified Board of Education, gave a quick shout-out to the California Teachers Assn. for backing his bid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Anthropic rival OpenAI, in addition to backing the call for a pause, pushed its initial public offering into next year.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
The leader of one of Labour's biggest funders, Unite the Union, is among those backing limits on individual donations.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
With the financial backing of Durham’s white leaders, Shepard founded North Carolina College, a school based on Washington’s theories of self-improvement.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
The only thing he requests is a tin of 112 players with adhesive backings.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
At that point, bank targets may be persuaded to do deals not because they need the liquidity, but to show they have the backings of large institutional investors.
From Reuters ● Mar. 14, 2023
On the doors to the offices themselves, a few backings of peeled-off stickers remained.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2021
Ms. Kokoszka described the members as having “unselfishly donated their time, talents, fabrics, battings, backings, bindings and labels for the making of the quilts each of our honored guests will receive tonight.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 24, 2020
We make complicated floral patterns with a compass, we glue odd substances to cardboard backings: feathers, sequins, pieces of macaroni garishly dyed, lengths of drinking straw.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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