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Small and midsize businesses make up the backbone of our economy.

Though new coins and privacy technologies have been emerging for years, Bitcoin and its public ledger remain “the backbone of the cryptocurrency economy,” says Janczewski.

Italy’s luxury sector is dominated by world-renowned brands from Gucci to Valentino and Versace, but it is tens of thousands of small family businesses that form the backbone of the country’s $93 billion fashion and leather industry.

The state and federal government cannot continue to leave behind the essential workers and taxpayers that serve as the backbone of our economy.

The tech giants’ fingerprints, brain power and dollars are all over the invisible backbone of the global internet.

Instead, straighten your civic backbone and push back in clear conscience.

She had been, he says, the backbone of their family and losing her shifted their entire emotional landscape.

She refused to participate in political bribery, which is the unspoken prerequisite backbone of this world.

With a backbone of steel, she matched her husband in intelligence, perseverance, and strength of spirit.

That timeline can serve as the backbone for the story our data tells.

Its backbone should be the study of biology and its substance should be the threshing out of the burning questions of our day.

He was Gascon to the backbone, and his tongue too often betrayed his most secret and his most transient thoughts.

I kept a stiff backbone for a while, but presently a futile rage against circumstances bubbled up and boiled over.

Isabel deigned no reply, and he took possession of a deep chair, settled himself on his backbone, and regarded her attentively.

Education, the "backbone" of cultural activities, is one of the most challenging current problems facing Virginia.