backbone
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It wasn’t accidental how the Appalachian Trail became my family’s backbone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Van der Meer called offshore oil production “the backbone of the international business” and predicted a sharp decline in fracking production within a decade.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
The seven thermal power plants that form the national grid's backbone have all been in operation for more than 40 years, and are in various states of disrepair.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
It has enough backbone for the journey without requiring the determined chewing that makes lunch feel like a mandibular endurance event.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
After coffee, Watson capitulated: perhaps the backbone was on the outside, and the bases—A, T, G, and C—faced in, apposed against each other.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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
At the same time, it strongly suggested that the backbones of the two chains must run in opposite directions.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
