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skeletal

[skel-i-tl] / ˈskɛl ɪ tl /


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The designs, including silky dresses and billowing space-age black trousers like those worn by rock star David Bowie in the 1970s, were carefully fitted to the robots' skeletal frames.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Published in Nature Communications, the research combines archaeology, ancient DNA analysis, isotope studies, and skeletal evidence to reconstruct how people lived, moved, ate, and buried their dead roughly 3,000 years ago.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

A blood-red tree descends, its skeletal branches and ropy roots suggesting veins and arteries.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Around 95% of the body's creatine is stored in skeletal muscle, while smaller amounts are found in the brain, heart and other organs.

From Science Daily • May 4, 2026

The doc looked up from where she knelt beside a huge man cradling a limp, skeletal body in his massive arms.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee




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