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skeleton

[skel-i-tn] / ˈskɛl ɪ tn /
NOUN
structure of bones in animate being or supports in an object
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In eight smaller frames of glass at the top of the window, Saar added various images including stars, phases of the moon, a skeleton and a phrenological chart.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

Increased uptake activated molecular signals that directed proteins inside the neurons to cut apart sections of the skeleton.

From Science Daily Jul. 15, 2026

A dirty grey mound is all that remains of the salt mountains that once filled the building, now a weathered steel skeleton.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

It’s an auction record for a fossilized dinosaur skeleton, beating the $44.6 million that Citadel founder Kenneth Griffin paid two years ago for Apex, a 150-million-year old Stegosaurus.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

Out here stars were perforations revealing the bleached skeleton of the universe through a collection of tiny holes.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

Complete skeletons are uncommon in the fossil record, so the researchers relied on much smaller clues: teeth and pieces of jaw.

From Science Daily Jul. 19, 2026

He didn’t have skeletons just in his closet; he had one tattooed on his chest.

From Slate Jul. 7, 2026

A new, though extinct, species of whale was also identified among the nearly 500 skeletons found up to 7,000 metres deep along a 1,200 kilometre corridor of bones in the Indian Ocean west of Australia.

From Barron's Jun. 10, 2026

There’s some wan comedy in an early scene where these new-ish lovers debate the ethics of secrecy while revealing the skeletons they’ve been hiding from each other.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 10, 2026

I’d wondered before what skeletons this key was hiding.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool




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