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the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions
I could feel in my bones that I had just met my future wife
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Recent Examples of bones
Mark Stibich, Verywell Health, 30 Jan. 2026
Dig around to remove the thyme and any bones that have separated from the ribs, then allow the sauce to simmer on the stove and reduce for 20 minutes.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Jan. 2026
My bones hurt a little bit more.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
For women, in particular, consistent muscle-pumping is key to avoiding the downward spiral of weak muscles, brittle bones, and falls that happens all too often with age.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 29 Jan. 2026
Through this stimulation of the healing processes in soft tissues and bones by acoustic waves, the healing process can be made faster and less painful for patients.
—William Jones, jsonline.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Even then, smooth and slick with residual fats and oils, the bones slide around too easily to allow people to simply push off with their feet alone.
—Mark Hay, Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2026
The analysis of the bones, published on January 13 in the affirms previous assumptions about the species, such as that had long and strong arms that were more similar in proportion to those of apes than to those of modern humans.
—K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2026
Look for visible ribs or bones.
—Sara Hansen, Denver Post, 23 Jan. 2026
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Since vitamin D helps to keep your bones strong, a deficiency can lead to bone softening and subsequent bone pain and fractures.
—Mark Stibich, Verywell Health, 30 Jan. 2026
Dig around to remove the thyme and any bones that have separated from the ribs, then allow the sauce to simmer on the stove and reduce for 20 minutes.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Jan. 2026
My bones hurt a little bit more.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
For women, in particular, consistent muscle-pumping is key to avoiding the downward spiral of weak muscles, brittle bones, and falls that happens all too often with age.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 29 Jan. 2026
Through this stimulation of the healing processes in soft tissues and bones by acoustic waves, the healing process can be made faster and less painful for patients.
—William Jones, jsonline.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Even then, smooth and slick with residual fats and oils, the bones slide around too easily to allow people to simply push off with their feet alone.
—Mark Hay, Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2026
The analysis of the bones, published on January 13 in the affirms previous assumptions about the species, such as that had long and strong arms that were more similar in proportion to those of apes than to those of modern humans.
—K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2026
Look for visible ribs or bones.
—Sara Hansen, Denver Post, 23 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bones
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About 10 out of every 100 people with meningitis dies, and those who survive can suffer profound and lifelong consequences.—
Isabella Cueto,
STAT,
6 Jan. 2026
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Saros looks like a promising follow-up to Returnal, incorporating all the frenetic action and satisfying alien-blasting of the previous game, while also bringing in its own time-loop mechanic to justify the live-die-repeat gameplay style that Housemarque is fast becoming known for.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
5 Jan. 2026
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Two months later, her heart began to beat irregularly.—
Stephanie Armour,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Vidal was struck five times and bullets hit his heart, lung, liver and pancreas.—
Sierra van der Brug,
Oc Register,
27 Jan. 2026
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His family spent an agonizing week searching through morgues, hospitals and detention facilities before finally identifying his body among piles of corpses, also shown in the viral footage.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Gynae Kendall, 25, was charged Sunday with concealment of a human corpse.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
26 Jan. 2026
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And if the Supreme Court makes an early enough ruling that guts the Voting Rights Act, that could allow a slew of Southern states to redraw their maps before 2026 as well.—
Caroline Vakil,
The Hill,
3 Dec. 2025
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The government’s lawyers argued the ruling effectively guts a statute aimed at reducing gun violence by preventing unlawful drug users from wielding firearms.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
20 Oct. 2025
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At the end of her list, Steinfeld included a video which showed the actress posing in the snow with her pregnant belly out as Allen kissed her stomach.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
12 Jan. 2026
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The report, obtained by The New York Times on Friday, drew the conclusion based on computer simulations of the Boeing 737-800’s belly landing at the airport in Muan, in the country’s southwest.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 Jan. 2026
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Notably, a 2025 study published in Nature Communications observed that baleen whale migration (including gray whales) facilitates the transportation of essential nutrients — from their placenta, carcasses and even their urea — between polar feeding grounds and tropical breeding areas.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Besides being in the right environment, the carcasses also have to avoid becoming a snack for hungry scavengers like birds and hyenas.—
Adithi Ramakrishnan,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2026
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Middleburg also dresses to the nines for the holiday season, with festivities kicking off the first weekend of December during a multiday affair known as Christmas in Middleburg.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Jan. 2026
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Back then, she had been advised—free of charge—by stylist Bailey Moon, who dresses the likes of Morgan Spector and Cristin Milioti and is most widely known for having worked with Jill Biden and her family throughout president Joe Biden’s administration.—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
2 Jan. 2026
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However, researchers noted that fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is used today as a treatment to restore gut flora in the colon, representing a modern application for healthy feces.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Jan. 2026
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Some health experts say retatrutide, which works by targeting three gut hormones rather than one or two, can reach patients with severe obesity who would benefit from even more weight loss than what existing injections can offer.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Bones.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bones. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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