backer

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as in sponsor
a person who takes the responsibility for some other person or thing all financial backers will be expected to offer some input into the company's decisions

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Recent Examples of backer The fact that OpenAI is already going deep into the consumer is making a lot of its backers extremely nervous. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025 It's also exceeded its funding goal for the Elio bottle with more than 650 backers on board. New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2025 If that awareness spreads to other highly tariffed sectors, from furniture to heavy machinery, this administration may unintentionally succeed in unlocking widespread adoption of circularity that has eluded its backers for decades. Justin Worland, Time, 17 Oct. 2025 Related Stories Until this summer, Niehuus had served as CEO of Medienboard, the film fund for the Berlin-Brandenburg region, a major backer of international co-productions. Leo Barraclough, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025 The startup also counts Lowercarbon Capital and Inspired Capital among its backers. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025 But the backers of both bills later came together to make SB 414 a compromise bill. Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2025 Scorsese’s producing partner, his manager, the sister of his manager and a financial backer of the manager’s company all served as different kinds of producers on this project. Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025 Brown continues to make backers frown. Brad Evans, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for backer
Noun
  • Many of the president’s supporters have backed his moves to combat drug trade in the region, however, some Republicans, including Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, as well as many Democrats, have expressed concern over the president’s unilateral decisions.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • America’s farmers are among the president’s most dependable supporters.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This included participants, families, sponsors and media.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Even without the cash from the bankrupt finance firm, the Clippers’ sponsor revenue topped $100 million, which ranked second in the league for sponsorships last season, behind the Warriors.
    Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In Australia, the bounce is his ally.
    Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Vladimir Lenin believed that such families were a prison for women, and his revolutionary comrades—among them, his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya; his mistress Inessa Armand; and his ally Alexandra Kollontai—were assigned the task of freeing them from it.
    Julia Ioffe, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Simonds is a proponent of patterned wallpaper, statement lighting, colorful tile, and more.
    Amanda Sims, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Now Guillermo del Toro — cinema’s biggest proponent of big-screen fantasy — has completed his two-and-a-half-hour version, an epic adaptation with a blockbuster budget, a stamp of auteurship, and decades spent ruminating on the relevance of Shelley’s text in the modern era.
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Most recently, she was appointed the newest royal patron of the Chartered College of Teaching, a position previously held by her late grandfather, Prince Philip.
    Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Kabul wants to hedge against its deteriorating relationship with its former patron Islamabad, which accuses the Taliban of harboring a separate but allied group that has carried out deadly attacks inside Pakistan.
    Happymon Jacob, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Juarez, who was never charged by the feds, has long been a fierce advocate for Chretien’s company.
    Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Today, scientists, influencers, advocates and politicians are publicly condemning ultraprocessed foods.
    Alice Callahan, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The prime exponents are Brentford, with whom Gronnemark has worked on a consultancy basis.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Young Thug is the purest exponent of mainstream rap’s melodic rap era.
    Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Backer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backer. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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