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bone

[bohn] / boʊn /
NOUN
piece of animate skeleton
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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

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

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

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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