backbone
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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
Different methods can produce substantially different estimates, particularly when scientists must reconstruct an extinct animal using an incomplete backbone.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
The resulting backbone would have to show minor in- and-out buckles depending upon whether pairs of purines or pyrimidines were in the center.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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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
“If you look at the collection of companies that ultimately formed Lumen, the underlying technologies and backbones were never integrated,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 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
Sure, almost any old union would boost wages and straighten out some backbones here, but I know that even the most energetic and democratic unions bear careful watching by their members.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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