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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backboned
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This results in a charge imbalance that builds up an electric field strong enough to trigger flashes of lightning.—
National Geographic,
National Geographic,
13 Jan. 2023 -
According to research from Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit that advocates for gun control, strong gun control laws are correlated with fewer gun deaths.—
Elliot Hughes,
Journal Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2023
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Last year was a tough one for job seekers, who on average were unemployed for 23.3 weeks in December, up from 19.4 in December 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.—
Maria Gracia Santillana Linares,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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Though not nearly as consequential as Dallas losing Dončić, Minnesota took a tough blow Monday — Donte DiVincenzo will be out indefinitely due to a toe injury.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
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Key Facts Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios, publicist Jennifer Abel, crisis management expert Melissa Nathan and other plaintiffs filed a lawsuit on Thursday in New York Federal Court against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, her publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane's firm Vision PR.—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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May was known as a firm manager, which meant that audiences trusted the Whitmans to deliver a moral and appropriate show, while parents trusted them to give young performers careful care.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
22 Jan. 2025
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Such an approach would reinforce America's leadership in the Arctic and demonstrate its commitment to principled engagement in a rapidly changing world.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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The principled purist gallery calls them inconsistent.—
Brian Domitrovic,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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Boston: Image Image When much of downtown Boston burned a year after Chicago, property owners upgraded in a kind of virtuous cycle, erecting sounder and taller buildings and incentivizing their neighbors to do the same.—
Emily Badger,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Other countries will be forced to follow suit and hence create a price action virtuous cycle.—
Billy Bambrough,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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Sandoval has received some pay bumps, including a temporary $10,000-a-year bonus for Hawaii special education teachers designed to alleviate shortages in that and other hard-to-staff areas.—
Alia Wong,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2023
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Whether those numbers are an overstatement, or possibly an understatement, is hard to say.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
13 Feb. 2023
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On its surface, this disquieting diptych about male anxiety has the feel of, say, an Asghar Farhadi movie, a moral dilemma urging forth a thriller plot.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
25 Jan. 2025
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Its origins lie in one of the country’s most pivotal reckonings: The effort to redress the legal and moral horrors of chattel slavery.—
Paola Mendoza,
TIME,
24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Each upright blackberry stem produces fruit only one time.—
Neil Sperry,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Jan. 2025
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The 23-year-old is physically larger and stockier than his counterparts, with his dribbling style idiosyncratically upright.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Backboned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backboned. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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