backer
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China is its neighbour's largest trading partner and a vital diplomatic and political backer, although relations have not always been smooth with the ruling Kim dynasty.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
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
He was an early backer of the AI lab DeepMind and served on its board before it was acquired by Google in 2014.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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
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
“They’re like company-specific AI labs,” with the ETFs holding shares of their partners or backers, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
Roy’s backers include the Carpenters Council, hotel employee union Unite Here Local 11 and the Smart Justice California Action Fund, which backed prosecutor George Gascón during his race for L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
New backers include Stony Creek Capital, a semiconductor-focused private-equity firm, people with knowledge of the matter said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
The move could be a step towards Musk's mission to build a self-sustaining city on Mars - a vision that has invited sceptics but also plenty of backers.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
In the United States as in Europe, many of Darwin’s most ardent backers were successful tradespeople whose hobby was butterfly or beetle collecting.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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