skeletal
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Kevin Young, the project’s lead manufacturing engineer, remembered thinking as he watched the skeletal frame disappear into the paint machine.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
It was farmer Dave Matthews who found the skeletal remains of a man who became known as Some Mother's Son while cutting gorse near Tregantle Fort in Cornwall in 1982.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
These species represented a range of evolutionary branches, body sizes, and skeletal features.
From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026
The palm wood snaking through the center of Mohammad Al Faraj’s eerie installation seems like the skeletal vertebrae of some giant creature.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
A morning breeze sent them all shuddering, ripping a few from where they clung to the skeletal branches.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
Vocabulary lists containing skeletal
STAAR Biology: Biological Processes and Systems
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Organisms and Environments 5: Human Systems
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Novel Study: Inside Out & Back Again, Unpack and Repack–1976: The Year of the Dragon
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