Backstop and Mentor

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Backstop verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

Usage example: the Nobel-winning geneticist was of course backstopped in his research by a team of highly talented assistants

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Mentor and backstop are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mentor" instead a verb "Backstop".

Mentor verb - To give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed.

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Backstop and mentor are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Backstop" instead a verb "Mentor".

This peace brought through tyranny was not perfect (Scourge's old mentor Backstop observes that Scourge's method treats the symptoms but not the cause), but it was vastly preferable to how things had been.

Source: The Extremist Was Right

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