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bone

noun as in piece of animate skeleton

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The lower temporal bar functions much like a cheek bone.

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Stoppard made no bones, however, about the joy of writing comedy.

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In the first five days, forensic experts gingerly removed earth, millimeter by millimeter, recovering 3,463 bone fragments.

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Thanks to newly discovered fossil bones, scientists have now been able to match an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot, first found in 2009, to a species that is different from the famous fossil Lucy.

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Restaurants have become a source, too, after bones from a rack of barbecue ribs produced her best broth so far.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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