boned

past tense of bone

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for boned
Verb
  • The company's founders, dressed in uniform-like blue jackets and khaki pants, rang the bell at the National Stock Exchange to start the trading day.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The restaurant takes a tongue-in-cheek approach in both its decor—think massive chandeliers, portraits of flamingos dressed as gentlemen and women, and a stylish Art Deco atrium facing Las Vegas Boulevard—and its food and beverage offerings.
    Julie Tremaine, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Once cleaned, the canal is filled with a rubber-like material and sealed to prevent reinfection.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Brass door handles can be cleaned with soap and water as mentioned above.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Those many months of combat have left Hamas severely weakened, with its leadership eviscerated and its military capabilities crippled.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But that cheaper investment has largely been eviscerated, according to a cadre of sports bankers CNBC interviewed.
    Michael Ozanian, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Whereas previous metal pollution records extracted their silt, or evidence from areas far from their sources— upland peat cores or mountain and polar glaciers, Cambridge specifies –the most recent data comes from the epicenter of production, a paleochannel of the River Ure, Cambridge explains.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The New Extraction Economy Early colonial powers extracted gold, spices and resources from distant lands while giving little back to local communities.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Boned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boned. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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