Thesaurus results for BONE(S)

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noun

plural of bone

as in die

a small cube marked on each side with one to six spots and usually played in pairs in various games the pirates decided their captives' fate with a toss of the bones

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as in heart

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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as in corpse

a dead body requested that his bones be buried in the country of his birth

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bones

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verb

present tense third-person singular of bone

as in guts

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Noun

Snell-Rood said with long-term exposure, the human body can confuse lead with calcium and store it in the bones. — CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026 But important clues about how the sickness operates are emerging from the latest studies of bacterial DNA in ancient bones and teeth. — Faye Flam, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2026 Osteoporosis is a medical condition characterized by porous, fragile and less dense bones that are much more likely to break. — Cheryl Fenton, Flow Space, 27 Oct. 2026 Every opportunity to pounce on each other, snap after gnats, and pull shreds of meat from bones is important. — Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2026 The couple was involved in transactions that saw American black bear gallbladders and cougar bones being smuggled into Vietnam, as well as black and white rhinoceros horns, lion teeth and a tiger pelt being illegally imported to Oregon. — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026 Aditya Guru Dev and Samyukta Lakshmi—grandchildren of the erstwhile Maharaja of Mysore—acquired a bungalow with good bones and a slowly failing roof. — Nuriyah Johar, Architectural Digest, 16 Oct. 2026 Long-term exposure can damage the kidneys and weaken bones, although the health risks depend on how the metal enters the body. — Bilin Lin, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026 Sources said the Medical Examiner's Office was called Thursday to recover bones from the home in Philadelphia's Olney section. — ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Our hearts are with the families whose homes and livelihoods have been impacted.

— Ava Berger, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026
Clyde also finds a black heart, but blows up Morgan’s scarecrow.

— Alice Burton, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026

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Police say Lozano-Garita is facing multiple charges, including murder, criminal possession of a weapon, concealment of a human corpse and tampering with physical evidence.

— Naveen Dhaliwal, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
The shallow grave kept the corpse concealed for nearly a week as the victim’s family frantically searched for her nearby.

— Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 27 Oct. 2026

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Verb

Such incidental takings are the most common way that endangered animals die, the NYT reported, so advocates fear the move largely guts the ESA.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026
When the Supreme Court guts federal voting protections, every state has to decide whether to fill that void or exploit it.

— Anthony G. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026

Definition of guts

Noun

When a whale dies and sinks to the ocean floor, its carcass provides sustenance for deep-sea organisms for centuries, triggering a shockwave of life.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026
Traditional surveys of carcasses along roadways have shown that crossings do reduce wildlife collisions.

— Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

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New to the collaboration is the Adidas BW Army, rebranded by Wales Bonner as the Adidas PW Pony, which dresses the iconic German Army Trainer silhouette in black and khaki pony hair uppers that are contrasted with stamped lizard print leather.

— Riley Jones, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2026
Possessing a Midwestern accent, Calvin Klein dresses, Black American skin and hair care products, and a butter-pecan skin tone, Ericka quickly wins over the crew Paulina has ruled for years.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 29 Sep. 2026

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However, a new type of gut-crawling worm being designed by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), may actually be here to help.

— Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2026
As anyone who has had to replace their car key recently can (and likely will) tell you, the cost of doing so comes as a gut punch.

— Alison J. Stein, HubSpot, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of gut

Verb

When a pharma or biotech company wants to test a new drug, Iqvia finds the sites, recruits the patients, runs the trial and cleans the data.

— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026
That same dock features Vortex Wash, which automatically cleans the robot’s dirty wiping pads in about a minute.

— Matthew Huff, Time, 15 Oct. 2026

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