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
Kevin Miller, the boss of Apex HR, in Plymouth, said small businesses were "the backbone of the whole economy" and needed help.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 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
The researchers examined 27 fossilized vertebrae, the individual bones that make up a snake's backbone.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Despite the messy backbone, my pulse began to race.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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
In the case of mammals, reptiles, and fish, it would be that they all have backbones.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
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