backbone
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They are the physical backbone of the internet.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
I've called her the backbone of our team.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
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
Water risks becoming a flashpoint in a region grappling with climate change and population growth, which are stretching resources in the agricultural sectors that form the backbone of both countries' economies, experts say.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Crick had tried to stabilize the “wobbly unstable chains” by putting the phosphate backbone in the center.
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
"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
Sure, almost any old union would boost wages and straighten out some backbones here, but I know that even the most energetic and democratic unions bear careful watching by their members.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
