skeleton
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Meanwhile, Westerners flooded into Japan to swap their formal wear for the hollowed-out exoskeletons of Japan’s antiquated warriors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026
"We're working hard to make exoskeletons commonplace so people don't feel that social anxiety of wearing something like this," said Toby Knisely, communications manager at Hypershell, which says it has already sold 20,000 units.
From Barron's • Jan. 8, 2026
Diatomaceous earth, a powder made from fossilized diatoms, dries out the exoskeletons of roaches.
From Salon • Aug. 24, 2024
They stay buried year after year, until they surface and take over a landscape, covering houses with shed exoskeletons and making the ground crunchy.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2024
There they lay, scattered about the sand, hundreds, thousands of them, alien and delicate and lovely, exoskeletons the like of which he had never seen before.
From Made in Tanganyika by Jacobi, Carl Richard
Vocabulary lists containing skeleton
Life Science: Human Systems
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Life Science: Human Anatomy and Physiology
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