bone
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He compared the idea to treating a broken bone with a cast.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
"We are absolutely devastated to hear what has happened. Helen was a beautiful person. She didn't have a bad bone in her body," Woodrow told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
For those over 40, creatine can not only help counteract age-related muscle loss, but “it can be helpful for bone health,” Zaslow says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Rather than something to be played down, working yourself to the bone is to be bragged about—and advertised for up front.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
If not for these, she would have been chilled to the bone.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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In St. Louis, an interior designer shared her love of Pilates, escape rooms and collecting angel figurines and animal bones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
He had such brittle bones that he was told his career could be over.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
The next day, Watters made no bones about El-Sayed’s appeal.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
Once you really feel that in your bones, then it’s almost like the right doors and the right people start coming in, because you’re sitting in a place of power, not a place of desperation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
The trees were bare and stark white as bones.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Zeigen, who wears his hair shorn tight to his head, emphasizing his finely boned face and huge brown eyes, began by describing his mother.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2024
“I’m almost 6-feet-tall and big boned, we’ll call it. I don’t look like the people you see on TV,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
She logged thousands of miles on the road — she had ditched the BMW for a Ford F-150 pickup — and boned up on local issues, like broadband internet access and tick control.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
Spencer’s Victorian-inspired gown was made with intricate floral lace and has long slightly-puffed sleeves, boned corset, high collar and several buttons.
From Fox News ● Jul. 25, 2021
Sammy was amazed how small and diminutively boned Emma Lee was and how clean her brown hair smelled.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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Long story short, it’s probably time for every American to start boning up on this stuff just in case they find themselves in a conversation with Hugh Hewitt.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2023
Della Donna started boning up on criminal law, talking to every criminal attorney she could find and eventually turning to UCI Law School.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
You don't want a boning knife or a knife with a curved blade because you want to have as much contact as possible with your board in order to get the job done.
From Salon ● May 31, 2022
“I bought a mannequin and new boning, then I took the dresses apart and combined them.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
Three other cooks were boning fish, while a spit boy turned a boar over the flames.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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