backbone
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Mourning Parton's death, Swift acknowledged the star's "backbone of steel" in the struggle "to defend her own self worth as an artist".
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
A sausage-and-pepper meal starter eliminates most of the chopping; canned tomatoes provide the sauce’s backbone; and a few spoonfuls of prepared sun-dried tomato pesto pull everything into focus.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
It wasn’t accidental how the Appalachian Trail became my family’s backbone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Canada wants to create a locally owned AI backbone, as do dozens of other countries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
What she needed, Briony told herself yet again, was backbone.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
Sea squirts are invertebrates, making them useful for identifying differences between animals without backbones and those with them.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 4, 2026
Animals without a backbones evolved first, around 700 million years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
In the lethargy of her pregnancy, Amaranta Úrsula tried to set up a business in necklaces made out of the backbones of fish.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
