backbone
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Tran said “small businesses are the backbone of our economy” and he would expand access to capital, contracts and business opportunities for entrepreneurs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
They are the physical backbone of the internet.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Here is a look at the battle lines in the war over a technology that is now the backbone of the economy and could decide the future of the planet.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
The deal will also help build out the national long-haul backbone required by AI hyperscalers, supporting emerging artificial intelligence needs, the companies added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
They were wedge-shaped strips and he cut them from next to the backbone down to the edge of the belly.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
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
This may seem counterintuitive, since vertebrates are literally defined by the fact that they have backbones.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 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
