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Six example sentences with backbone, each labelled with its topic.
A single fibre line is the backbone of the whole campus network, and everything else hangs off it.
Technology
Small family farms were the backbone of the valley economy until two dry decades emptied half the villages.
Economics
The bass player is the backbone of this band; when she is ill the other four fall apart onstage.
Music
Defense is the backbone of this team, and on nights when it slips no amount of shooting saves them.
Basketball
The scheduling engine is the backbone of the product, and every feature the founders sell sits on top of it.
Startups
Customer deposits are the backbone of the bank, and when they left in a single week nothing else could hold it up.
Finance
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