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backup

[bak-uhp] / ˈbækˌʌp /


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Perhaps your favorite bot is suffering from a temporary outage, and you want a backup plan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

The band takes care with its stages as a platform for Filipino culture — it champions local fashion designers in stage outfits, and its backup dancers are from elite troupes in the Philippines.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

However, these solutions also require interconnection and backup transmission capacity.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

Although it appeared to acknowledge the server had been taken down, it said that was necessary for the backup to be restored.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

That means Deb’s mom is backup to pick me up on snow days.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari




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