backbone

Although the scientists did not recover a complete skeleton, the preserved backbone provides important clues about the snake's enormous proportions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

As a Catholic, Abbott has also managed to keep a discrete distance from the evangelicals who are the backbone of the Christian nationalist movement.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026

"Yes! My God, I have a backbone," she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

For decades, the bargain was straightforward: The U.S. provided the backbone of European security, Europe largely accepted American leadership, and both sides believed the arrangement served their national interests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

When Agnew saw the damaged backbone, he stuck his little finger through the hole created by Guiteau's bullet.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

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

Metaphors like those about celestial campfires or galactic backbones were eventually replaced in most human cultures by another idea; The powerful beings in the sky were promoted to gods.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan