backbone
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It wasn’t accidental how the Appalachian Trail became my family’s backbone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Copper remains the backbone of Zambia's economy, generating around 70 percent of export earnings.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Sun Microsystems powered the internet’s backbone and gave the world Java.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
After being asked to bat first the Steelbacks survived a monumental collapse, losing their final eight wickets for 31 to post 169, opener Ricardo Vasconcelos providing the backbone with 88.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Gary Drake's skeleton, Neal Brose's skull, Wayne Nashend's backbone, their futures, their souls.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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
Their anger had their bristles standing in high fierce ridges along their backbones.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
