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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

Transfer pathways, he added, “will remain essential, and CSU and UC will always be the backbone of baccalaureate education in California.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Water risks becoming a flashpoint in a region grappling with climate change and population growth, which are stretching resources in the agricultural sectors that form the backbone of both countries' economies, experts say.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

A sausage-and-pepper meal starter eliminates most of the chopping; canned tomatoes provide the sauce’s backbone; and a few spoonfuls of prepared sun-dried tomato pesto pull everything into focus.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

That Harry Potter’s got more backbone than the whole Ministry of Magic put together!’

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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

They boo’ed in the tubes of the corkscrew stairs, rattled the wooden shutters, whined shrilly through the shot windows, stirred the cold tapestries in frigid undulations, searched for backbones.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White