Thesaurus results for BACKUPS

backups

noun

plural of backup

as in jams

a crowded mass (as of cars) that impedes or blocks movement there was the inevitable backup of travelers trying to pass through airport security

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as in replacements

a person or thing that takes the place of another you didn't get the lead position, but you can be the backup to the chosen singer

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Recent Examples of backups Young players and backups likely will see the vast majority of snaps in Thursday’s exhibition game. — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 11 Aug. 2026 Crucially, this would require Apple to implement a ‘back door’ feature that would negate the encryption layer, thus introducing a potentially fatal flaw into iCloud backups. — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Sulston pointed out that a clinic running its own AI would inherit responsibility for patching, backups and security. — New Atlas, 5 Aug. 2026 For most personal backups, document libraries, and media collections, those limits are unlikely to be an issue, but users moving extremely large archives should plan uploads accordingly. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026 Six of those players are competing for starting spots in Miami, and the other two — Gordon and Ewers — will serve as important backups at their positions. — Omar Kelly august 3, Miami Herald, 3 Aug. 2026 Milwaukee wanted Naylor as another layer of protection behind starting backstop William Contreras and backups Sánchez and Jeferson Quero. — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026 In April, Jer Crane, the founder of software startup PocketOS, said a Cursor AI agent that the company was using in its own system wiped out its production database and backups in 9 seconds. — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2026 Lots of QBs do throw the ball well in those kinds of situations, including Carolina’s backups on Wednesday. — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026

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But this film’s logic lies in the edit, starting and ending with a stop-start stutter motif that jars us into this world of a small Oklahoma town, where a bluegrass band jams in a restaurant parking lot.

— Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Satellite navigation can fail when an adversary jams GPS or China’s BeiDou system.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of jams

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Some of it starts with the social media substitutes and the smartphones that feel comfortable in our hands the way books used to feel.

— Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026
These systems are the most futuristic pieces of the renovation, but Korem presents them as additions to a much larger recovery program—not substitutes for foundational work.

— Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026