Backed and Funded

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Backed adjective - Having a back or backing, usually of a specified type.

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Funded and backed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Funded" instead a verb "Backed".

Nearby Words: back, backing, backer

Funded adjective - Furnished with funds.

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Backed and funded are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Backed" instead a verb "Funded".

Nearby Words: fund, funding

XCOM: Enemy Unknown put the player in charge of a globally-supported XCOM, backed and funded by a coalition of nations across the world, fighting against a secretive and subversive alien threat.

Source: Perspective Reversal
In NCIS, a Marine who escapes from a mental institution (funded by a private military contractor) and is brought back in by Gibbs' team claims to have been experimented on, a claim backed up by cybernetic implants found in his body and his unprecedented ability to defeat Ziva in a fistfight.

Source: Super Soldier
Backed by the Pentagon: The US Army has actively contributed to the game's development to make it more a realistic experience, made the base game governmented-funded freeware, and has adapted the game into two versions for their own troops to train tactics on.

Source: Video Game / Full Spectrum Warrior

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