backbone
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America’s manufacturing sector employs some 13 million people and forms the backbone of our nation’s supply chain, including for national defense goods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
As a Catholic, Abbott has also managed to keep a discrete distance from the evangelicals who are the backbone of the Christian nationalist movement.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
While the rising cost of diesel directly hits drivers, there's a wider concern because of its use in the lorries, vans and ships that form the backbone of global supply chains.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
RNA also appears to hold fewer water molecules around its backbone than DNA.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
The fact that we had at last produced a stereochemically reasonable configuration for the backbone was always in the back of my head.
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
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
In 1981, researchers uncovered a set of ancient snake backbones at Hordle Cliff on England's south coast.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 31, 2025
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
