backbone
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Transfer pathways, he added, “will remain essential, and CSU and UC will always be the backbone of baccalaureate education in California.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Water risks becoming a flashpoint in a region grappling with climate change and population growth, which are stretching resources in the agricultural sectors that form the backbone of both countries' economies, experts say.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
U.S. government bonds remain the backbone of the global financial system and set the baseline for a range of investments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The bout was billed as a classic grappler versus striker match-up, with Makhachev's signature wrestling providing the backbone for his dominant run in the UFC.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
It is a knob in the backbone of central Africa.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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
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
Sea squirts are invertebrates, making them useful for identifying differences between animals without backbones and those with them.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 4, 2026
Animals without a backbones evolved first, around 700 million years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
In the case of mammals, reptiles, and fish, it would be that they all have backbones.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
