backbone
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The bout was billed as a classic grappler versus striker match-up, with Makhachev's signature wrestling providing the backbone for his dominant run in the UFC.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
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
It has enough backbone for the journey without requiring the determined chewing that makes lunch feel like a mandibular endurance event.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Undeterred and apparently with a backbone like steel, she shakes her head at him, contempt in her voice.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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
Turner sat on the stool, and he heard her settle backbones creaking and snapping.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
