skeleton
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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
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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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