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Kevin Miller, the boss of Apex HR, in Plymouth, said small businesses were "the backbone of the whole economy" and needed help.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 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

RNA also appears to hold fewer water molecules around its backbone than DNA.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

And if that was lost on the citizens who became Peacekeepers or worked in the Nut, it was not lost on the stonecutters who formed the backbone of the resistance here.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

Tanyka belongs to a broad group of vertebrates known as tetrapods, which includes all four-limbed animals with backbones such as reptiles, birds, mammals, and amphibians.

From Science Daily ● May 1, 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

“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

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