backbone
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Canada wants to create a locally owned AI backbone, as do dozens of other countries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Supporting small and medium-sized businesses has been among Vladimir Putin's declared priorities even in wartime, and framed as a backbone of resilience in the face of Western sanctions.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Sun Microsystems powered the internet’s backbone and gave the world Java.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Taliban authorities have vowed to boost economic self-sufficiency and move off a reliance on foreign aid, which once formed the backbone of the previous US-backed government's finances.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 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
This may seem counterintuitive, since vertebrates are literally defined by the fact that they have backbones.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 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
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
