backbone

Example Sentences

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The feeling that nowhere is safe is a durable horror concept, the backbone behind such classics as “Nightmare on Elm Street” and “It Follows.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026

Memory chips are the storage and processing backbone of virtually every electronic device, from smartphones to the AI data centers now consuming those chips at record rates.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 18, 2026

The company continues to show it is the manufacturing backbone of the AI era.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

The road "is basically the backbone of Russian occupation in the south", Clément Molin, an analyst at the French-based think tank Atum Mundi, told the BBC.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

What she needed, Briony told herself yet again, was backbone.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan