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backed

verb

past tense of back

as in endorsed

to promote the interests or cause of she enthusiastically backed the plan to renovate and upgrade the school's facilities

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as in aided

to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end a number of influential people have already agreed to back the candidate

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as in reinforced

to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea) the author needs to back her thesis with more facts

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Recent Examples of backed And with just days to go before this vote, Brazil’s Senate approved rules backed by Lula’s administration to reduce the maximum workweek from 44 to 40 hours while enshrining two rest days without a salary cut. — Eléonore Hughes, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026 Despite a record number of candidates, the race had been expected to be decided in a runoff between incumbent Yotova, backed by Radev’s party, and former caretaker Prime Minister Gyurov, who is backed by pro-Western opposition parties. — ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026 Thus, Lula needs to win a significant majority of first round voters who backed right-wing or center-right candidates. — David Unsworth, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026 Minas Gerais has backed the eventual winner in every direct presidential election since 1989. — Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026 Nvidia has backed other neoclouds that have run into challenges. — Kif Leswing,isabel O'Brien, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026 After all, states like Georgia and Arizona were also once solidly red until break-out candidates—backed by party spending—upended those assumptions. — Philip Elliott, Time, 19 Oct. 2026 The apartment development, between North Broadway and the Fox River downtown and backed by DAC developments, is set to be a 343,421-square-foot building with 258 apartments. — Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026 The Coens also weighed in on the changing film business, including the role of streaming platforms, which have backed some of their recent projects. — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 17 Oct. 2026

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Verb

The judge handling last month endorsed a proposal by the suit's plaintiff to notify potential class members to submit claims on the settlement by conducting a four-week-long social media campaign on Facebook and Instagram.

— Dan Mangan, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026
These new lines of thought, which have gained prominence among influential defense intellectuals and policy experts close to the Kremlin over the past year do not need to be endorsed in formal security doctrine to matter.

— Dmitry Adamsky, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of endorsed

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Equally responsible for this Bentley’s milestone handling are the Supersports’ electronic limited-slip differential, rear-wheel steering, suspension aided by a 48-volt active anti-roll bar, and enormous carbon-silicon-carbide brakes.

— Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2026
Republicans in 2010 capitalized on an economy still experiencing the recession that had aided Obama's win in 2008.

— Ron Elving, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of aided

Verb

And the Starshield throttling — which apparently is still in effect — has doubtless reinforced the nation's desire to control its own satellite-communications infrastructure.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Crews excavated an 8-acre basin in the infield to serve as a holding pond, while contractors rebuilt the culverts under the track and reinforced the road leading into it.

— Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of reinforced

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Lula signed into law a measure raising the revenue threshold for individual microentrepreneurs, proposed new initiatives to renegotiate consumer debt and advocated ending online betting, whose expansion has contributed to household indebtedness.

— Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026
The fire department has long advocated for its own training center, Bitchakdjian said.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of advocated

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Kapszukiewicz thanked all community agencies that helped respond to the event, including those who assisted in evacuating residents and setting up shelters.

— Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2026
Spero said that Pangram is calibrated to call something AI-assisted only if the tool is extremely confident in its analysis.

— T.M. Brown, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of assisted

Verb

Shares of Apple have jumped 26% year to date as the company has enhanced its artificial intelligence and cloud technology integrations and bolstered subscription revenue across its ecosystem.

— Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2026
The absence of Karoline Vitto — who bolstered the curve representation last season in London — was palpably felt.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of bolstered

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Historically, the Ford Foundation supported civil rights lawsuits beginning in the late 1960s and helped build public interest law into a field of its own.

— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Du Halgouët said the region’s performance was supported by retail sales at its own-brand stores, while the company’s focus on higher-value products, particularly leather goods and jewelry, helped cushion the decline.

— Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of supported

Verb

Those earlier tests helped engineers evaluate the system before moving to a live missile flight.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026
Last year, Kort helped launch an Eat the Invaders event, bringing chefs together to channel people’s appetite for delicious food by cooking with invasive and overabundant species.

— Victoria Malloy, Time, 21 Oct. 2026

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