backbone
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Here is a look at the battle lines in the war over a technology that is now the backbone of the economy and could decide the future of the planet.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
I've called her the backbone of our team.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
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
The U.S. has more than 5,400 data centers, which are the backbone of the internet and power the apps on your smartphone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Was it possible—the tension, the withdrawals, the pillow-muted sobbing behind locked doors, all due to an out-of-order backbone?
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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
In 1981, researchers uncovered a set of ancient snake backbones at Hordle Cliff on England's south coast.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 31, 2025
Animals without a backbones evolved first, around 700 million years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Metaphors like those about celestial campfires or galactic backbones were eventually replaced in most human cultures by another idea; The powerful beings in the sky were promoted to gods.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
