backbone
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You may resent your low- and unpaid work that has been the backbone of your family.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
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
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
I wasn’t sure I did have enough backbone to face Traft one more time.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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
Sea squirts are invertebrates, making them useful for identifying differences between animals without backbones and those with them.
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
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
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