backbone

Zimbabwe's mineral wealth is the backbone of its economy: the southern African country is among leading producers of platinum metals, chrome and lithium, much of it exported to China.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026

Their models considered the mechanical properties of the backbone itself, but other structures would have added further restrictions.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026

You may resent your low- and unpaid work that has been the backbone of your family.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

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

I traced the backbone with my finger and decided to start with the shark’s skeleton.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

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

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