skeleton
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The goals came in front of the skeleton of the North Stand, which will not have gone unnoticed as they had previously scored only once when attacking that end this season.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Here’s the thing about the Neko Health scan: It’s not an MRI, so it can’t see into your organs or skeleton and check for any issues happening there.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
"You can swim for hours and hours along the reef in the lagoon, just skeleton after skeleton. It's all dead," said marine biologist Austin Bowden-Kerby, who visited last year and documented the devastation.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
The discovery highlights the risks of reconstructing an extinct animal from only a small part of its skeleton.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Along the way, they’d watched Atlas raise some skeleton warriors from dragon teeth in the Smithsonian Museum.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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Some tips for scaredy cats: If you don’t like spooky scary skeletons, creepy crawlies, or horror flicks, Halloween season can be a fright to endure.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
He’s said: “I set out to write this book thinking I’d reveal where all the skeletons are buried. Turns out most of them are mine.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Nearby, teams of archaeologists worked in tents, assembling skeletons out of the discovered bones and piecing together skulls that were destroyed by blunt-force trauma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Copernicus observations go back to 1940 but other evidence -- such as ice cores, tree rings and coral skeletons -- allow scientists to place today's climate against a much longer historical context.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Piled high everywhere was junk, metal skeletons of forgotten species.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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