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
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
A sausage-and-pepper meal starter eliminates most of the chopping; canned tomatoes provide the sauce’s backbone; and a few spoonfuls of prepared sun-dried tomato pesto pull everything into focus.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
They become the backbone of the next song, Eternal Sunshine.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Sure,” I said, wishing I could rent a backbone from here too.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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
"Big pharma's GLP-1 backbones are already excellent," Eastman said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 28, 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
Animals without a backbones evolved first, around 700 million years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Turner sat on the stool, and he heard her settle backbones creaking and snapping.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
