skeleton
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Access, basing rights, overflight permissions, maintenance, refueling and logistics are the skeleton of military power.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
"One of the brothers went off to look for firewood, and in doing so discovered what they believed to be a human skeleton," said Det Supt Bell.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
The remarkably well-preserved fossil skeleton was uncovered in ancient lakebed sediments at Haughton Crater on Devon Island in Nunavut.
From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026
Anschutz owns the Home Depot Center, where the U.S. bobsled and skeleton teams train.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026
Along the way, they’d watched Atlas raise some skeleton warriors from dragon teeth in the Smithsonian Museum.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Vocabulary lists containing skeleton
Life Science: Human Systems
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Life Science: Human Anatomy and Physiology
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