bone up
Example Sentences
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Better to bone up on all the rules and loopholes.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026
I want to be clear that this is not necessarily a requirement, that everybody bone up on Nietzsche.
From Salon ● May 15, 2022
The senior surgeon at a Paris hospital put the image of a woman's forearm with a Kalashnikov bullet lodged near the bone up for sale online as an NFT.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2022
He said his interpreters all bone up before the Olympics, studying the nuances of judo or the vagaries of Modern Pentathlon.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
If we were going to play by our own rules, we’d have to bone up on our acting skills.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
