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bone

[bohn] / boʊn /
NOUN
piece of animate skeleton
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Bone chips, ACLs, MCLs, pulled hamstrings, multiple Tommy John surgeries and the recent epidemic of dreaded oblique strains just for starters.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026

WHP, the company behind Vera Wang and Rag & Bone, said the deal will bump its annual sales up by about $1 billion to $9.5 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Graduating college is “a massive change in your life — one of the biggest, outside of getting married and having kids,” said Clifford Cornell, a financial adviser at New York-based Bone Fide Wealth.

From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026

With T. Bone Burnett holding forth in the producer’s chair yet again, “Long Long Road” matches its predecessor’s penchant for warmhearted storytelling and well-played musical confections.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026

Delilah rushes to the only bookstore in the city that miraculously carries Howie Maldonado’s science fiction novel, The Lost Twin of Bone Bay.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera




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