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- found the backbone of a fish lying on the beach
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- it takes backbone to stand up to the kind of suffering that some cancer patients must endure
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“Backbone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backbone. Accessed 28 May. 2022.
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