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skeletal

[skel-i-tl] / ˈskɛl ɪ tl /


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Kevin Young, the project’s lead manufacturing engineer, remembered thinking as he watched the skeletal frame disappear into the paint machine.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

The viral video shows him carrying a bundle of skeletal remains wrapped in a sack to the bank and placing it outside the building's entrance.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

The palm wood snaking through the center of Mohammad Al Faraj’s eerie installation seems like the skeletal vertebrae of some giant creature.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

He is an associate professor and researcher in molecular skeletal biology at Lund University.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

I noticed them because I always thought my own fingers were weirdly long and skeletal.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram




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