bone
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This shifts the balance toward stronger and more durable bone.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
A treatment capable of improving both bone and muscle strength could be especially relevant for older adults, who often experience declines in both tissues at the same time.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
It was her first Grand Slam since undergoing surgery in July 2025 to correct a chronic injury caused by small pieces of bone floating in the elbow.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
This fossilised hunk of whale bone has lain hidden in the earth on Portmuck Beach for possibly millennia.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Little by little Rowan eased the bone loose.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
“In the wild wake of the digital revolution, the art culture niche might be struggling, but mass culture is just about dead. The Lucas is where the bones are buried.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
It was found on the same beach where Ireland's only dinosaur bones were discovered in the late 19th Century and the 1980s.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Broken bones and torn ligaments aside, what was particularly frustrating about my accident was what happened afterward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
"This conclusion is supported by the way their bones developed to sustain heavy muscle use, which corresponds directly to the weapons discovered in their tombs."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Mr. Dannenberg and I are overlapping each other, our voices rising there in the bones of the railway yard.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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
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
Fiona said she boned up for the task by watching “one YouTube video that we didn’t even finish. We watched the first five minutes.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 30, 2020
Frail-looking, delicately boned, the young man would not have wanted to be a soldier and in his heart would have feared performing badly in battle.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
Per the film, this is a natural consequence of not boning up on your “Emily Post.”
From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2023
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
Garment underpinnings — corsetry boning, seams and darts — became external flourishes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2020
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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