backbone
Example Sentences
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“The early Iran headlines injected a flash of adrenaline into the market — enough to push crude through some technical ceilings — but the move never developed a physical backbone.”
From MarketWatch
“The early Iran headlines injected a flash of adrenaline into the market — enough to push crude through some technical ceilings — but the move never developed a physical backbone.”
From MarketWatch
It is the software backbone of the AI semiconductor arms race.
From Barron's
And more and more of our lives—from self-driving cars to home robots—will depend on what’s supposed to be a reliable cellular backbone.
Banks remain the key enabler as the financing backbone for these themes, she says.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.