skeleton
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Hundreds of metres of berths sat empty and towering gantry cranes stood idle as a skeleton crew conducted maintenance.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
By presenting the skeleton as a connected structure, it can also help paleontologists examine its anatomy and better understand how the predator lived.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
In eight smaller frames of glass at the top of the window, Saar added various images including stars, phases of the moon, a skeleton and a phrenological chart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Meanwhile, DRL’s remaining skeleton crew was tasked with removing trigger words from documents.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Even with all those clothes on he looked like a skeleton.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
The miracle behind Cruz’s discovery is that amphibians such as frogs, toads and salamanders rarely make it into the fossil records because of their fragile skeletons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
These animals have jointed limbs and hard external skeletons.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
The researchers compared the Ajimu bones with skeletons from living Cryptobranchidae species.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
He didn’t have skeletons just in his closet; he had one tattooed on his chest.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
On weekends, little Immie played Lego, baked cookies, and went to the American Museum of Natural History, where she loved the reptile skeletons best.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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