backbone

The payments to Leonard were facilitated through team sponsors, allowing the team to sidestep league rules about maximum compensation for players, the backbone of the NBA’s competitive structure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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

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

Only by the most special pleading could I imagine the polynucleotide backbone bending enough to accommodate irregular base sequences.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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

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