flesh

While many maggots consume dead or decomposing material, screwworm larvae feed on healthy, living flesh.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

Like Carrick with Gabriel, Sir Alex Ferguson saw Giggs playing youth football in the flesh, initially in a trial game at the Cliff training ground.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

If horror is “flesh and fluids,” then the flesh of this movie is a body comprised of nebulous ideas.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Dramatizations of the several lives studied put figurative flesh on the petrified bodies of the volcano victims, and those who escaped such a fate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

The cloak, of course, had been Clare’s, and it provided Gingersnipes with a comfort that went much deeper than fur and flesh.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

That earlier book floated an eye-catching thesis that Mr. Mandelbaum now fleshes out fully: that U.S. foreign policy is, indeed, distinctive, being “unusually ideological, unusually economic, and unusually democratic.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

She has a terrific speech about dating him, which fleshes out her character, while the other women are denied such an opportunity, which is a drawback.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2024

Along with some good work by returning screenwriter and longtime Wan collaborator David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, Wilson fleshes out Orm’s motivations and worldview enough to make his redemption arc believable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

Treasury Department fleshes out the minute details in President Biden’s signature climate bill.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2023

A glance into the classrooms of the Los Angeles public school system, where my sons are being educated, fleshes out the abstract debates with the faces of children.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The rebuild was fleshed out with midfielder Joao Gomes arriving from Wolverhampton Wanderers and winger Alejandro Garnacho on loan from Chelsea.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

After Powell’s press conferences, “we just sort of took for granted that the consensus view had been well represented and fleshed out,” Tang said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

By the 2000s, some franchises offered games that fleshed out or complemented the worlds depicted on the silver screen.

From Barron's ● May 26, 2026

Professors Carlos Manuel Vázquez and Steve Vladeck fleshed out the theory in an important 2013 article that has only grown more relevant since.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2026

It began life as a single, long, exhaustingly forceful movement, but Shostakovich, in a white heat of besieged inspiration, fleshed it out to a further three movements.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

And then Jamie and I have been fleshing it out with Matt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

The luxurious hotel complex was proposed by Washington and Tehran, and their Pakistani and Qatari mediators, for the negotiations aimed at fleshing out their preliminary agreement on ending nearly four months of war.

From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 2026

We’re all for peace-making, but this idea could use some fleshing out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

But if that’s the case, “Hamnet” should spend far more time fleshing out its titular character than its tertiary ones, letting the viewer see so much more of little Hamnet’s life than we’re ultimately afforded.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025

Anyone who tries to occupy this ‘best of both worlds’ position needs to face up to a further challenge, that of fleshing out the notion that nature pushes back.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton