backbone

Example Sentences

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What it will do is add a savory backbone that makes the entire skillet taste like you spent much longer cooking than you actually did.

From Salon • May 19, 2026

None of these offer the flexibility and backbone AI needs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

"Goonhilly will provide the backbone for this network, scales our global ground presence, and will bring a strategic core competency to the Intuitive Machines team," said Steve Altemus, CEO of IM.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

The corridor's backbone is the historic Benguela railway, which runs west to east from Lobito to the Congolese border.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

So in building models we would postulate that the sugar-phosphate backbone was very regular, and the order of bases of necessity very irregular.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson