backbone
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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
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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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