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backbone

[bak-bohn] / ˈbækˌboʊn /


NOUN
spinal column of vertebrate
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Brian Flores has the Vikings playing unlike any other defense in the league—and the strategy is the backbone of the sport’s last undefeated team.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

It is "a backbone of the web", according to security firm Wiz Research, which says it used AI to find vulnerabilities hidden in PHP for more than a decade.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Both have spoken about the need to expand Metro’s rail and bus network and agree that buses, especially, are the backbone to the city’s system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Different methods can produce substantially different estimates, particularly when scientists must reconstruct an extinct animal using an incomplete backbone.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

That Harry Potter’s got more backbone than the whole Ministry of Magic put together!’

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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

Scientists at the University of St Andrews have identified an important missing piece in understanding how animals with backbones first evolved.

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

The two sugar-phosphate backbones twist about on the outside with the flat hydrogen-bonded base pairs forming the core.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson


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