backup
Example Sentences
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Everyone can benefit from backup power in the event of an outage, but just 14% of American households own a generator.
Everyone can benefit from backup power in the event of an outage.
“What’s going to happen if we all put this money in and then they still fail? And what’s the backup plan?”
From Los Angeles Times
As these small blood vessels disappeared, kidney cells shifted away from efficient, mitochondria-based energy production and relied more heavily on less effective backup systems.
From Science Daily
The Thaad, which stands for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, is an American anti-ballistic missile system that can be used as backup against missiles both outside and inside the atmosphere.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
