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backbone

[bak-bohn] / ˈbækˌboʊn /


NOUN
spinal column of vertebrate
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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.

From The Wall Street Journal

Banks remain the key enabler as the financing backbone for these themes, she says.

From The Wall Street Journal