backbone
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RNA also appears to hold fewer water molecules around its backbone than DNA.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
For decades, the bargain was straightforward: The U.S. provided the backbone of European security, Europe largely accepted American leadership, and both sides believed the arrangement served their national interests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
The Sparks also desperately needed Brink to become the defensive backbone of the team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
The victory kicked off the staggering run of 17 wins in 20 games which formed the backbone of returning to the Champions League and giving Villa momentum to win the Europa League.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
So in building models we would postulate that the sugar-phosphate backbone was very regular, and the order of bases of necessity very irregular.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
The chart shows strongly performing security and infrastructure, which provides “critical data backbones, compute pipelines and complex protection systems that generative models actively expand rather than displace.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
"Big pharma's GLP-1 backbones are already excellent," Eastman said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 28, 2026
For decades, palaeontologists believed that the largest ocean predators were vertebrates with backbones such as fish and reptiles while invertebrates like octopuses and squid played supporting roles.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
Animals without a backbones evolved first, around 700 million years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
They boo’ed in the tubes of the corkscrew stairs, rattled the wooden shutters, whined shrilly through the shot windows, stirred the cold tapestries in frigid undulations, searched for backbones.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
