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skeleton

[skel-i-tn] / ˈskɛl ɪ tn /
NOUN
structure of bones in animate being or supports in an object
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Here’s the thing about the Neko Health scan: It’s not an MRI, so it can’t see into your organs or skeleton and check for any issues happening there.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

"You can swim for hours and hours along the reef in the lagoon, just skeleton after skeleton. It's all dead," said marine biologist Austin Bowden-Kerby, who visited last year and documented the devastation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

It included a nearly intact skeleton of a Columbian mammoth, dubbed Zed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The skeleton showed no signs of traumatic injury, she said, and the cause of death was deemed to be "unascertained".

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The truck was grayish brown like everything else, and lay slumped and broken on the road like the skeleton of a dead animal.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Some tips for scaredy cats: If you don’t like spooky scary skeletons, creepy crawlies, or horror flicks, Halloween season can be a fright to endure.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

He’s said: “I set out to write this book thinking I’d reveal where all the skeletons are buried. Turns out most of them are mine.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

BOROVE, Ukraine—Earlier this summer, a small crowd gathered around six freshly exhumed human skeletons protruding from the ground on the edge of a sunflower field in Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

"We need to analyse the skeletons and find out how these people died. Then we have to carry out DNA tests," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Evidence from fossilised skeletons indicates that ancient foragers were less likely to suffer from starvation or malnutrition, and were generally taller and healthier than their peasant descendants.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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