backer
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SEIU-UHW West is the primary backer of Californians for Responsible Healthcare and the Yes on 44 campaign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Private equity backer TSG, which took a 22% stake in the brewer in 2017, is set to lose £27.6m.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
China is a top economic partner of Iran that buys much of its oil output and is also a key diplomatic backer.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Gazprom publicly became the IBA’s financial backer, filling its coffers with tens of millions of dollars.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 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
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Raman’s backers see her as someone much more likely to push hard to get the private nonprofit running the Olympics to make sure Angelenos benefit from the event.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
A recent bid to change the law on this provision failed, but backers plan to keep pursuing it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The company's backers include Nvidia and major investment firms Blackstone and Jane Street.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Citing documents shared with OpenAI's financial backers, the FT said the company put its annualized revenue at close to $50 billion as of the end of September.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Sympathetic to Bobby’s plight, the committee circulated to its members a letter of protest that was ultimately sent to Icelandic Television, other media, and to the financial backers and distributors of the film.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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