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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

Both have spoken about the need to expand Metro’s rail and bus network and agree that buses, especially, are the backbone to the city’s system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 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

It is protected by a flexible backbone of separate vertebrae.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

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

Sea squirts are invertebrates, making them useful for identifying differences between animals without backbones and those with them.

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

Some lucky chance in our worlds long ago must have meant that creatures with backbones had it a bit easier, so all kinds of other shapes developed, all based on the central spine.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman