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backbone

[bak-bohn] / ˈbækˌboʊn /


NOUN
spinal column of vertebrate
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He also floated free public transportation on weekends, seeking to reconnect with poorer voters who had long formed the backbone of his support.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

It is "a backbone of the web", according to security firm Wiz Research, which says it used AI to find vulnerabilities hidden in PHP for more than a decade.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

While the rising cost of diesel directly hits drivers, there's a wider concern because of its use in the lorries, vans and ships that form the backbone of global supply chains.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

RNA also appears to hold fewer water molecules around its backbone than DNA.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

I trust you've enough of your mother's backbone to meet the remaining requirements.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

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

Scientists at the University of St Andrews have identified an important missing piece in understanding how animals with backbones first evolved.

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


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