skeleton
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A Durham Police officer told the coroner the force was contacted on 29 July 2024 after a contractor working on the building found a "small skeleton of a baby under the floorboards".
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
Access, basing rights, overflight permissions, maintenance, refueling and logistics are the skeleton of military power.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
Instead, researchers relied on micro-CT scanning, which allowed them to visualize the full skeleton in just a few months.
From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026
Anschutz owns the Home Depot Center, where the U.S. bobsled and skeleton teams train.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026
The skeleton of our primate ancestors developed for millions of years to support a creature that walked on all fours and had a relatively small head.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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Life Science: Human Systems
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