Thesaurus results for BONES

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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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dice

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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verb

present tense third-person singular of bone

as in guts

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Noun

But the bones of the operation have not changed, said Judd Frieling, one of the Artemis II flight directors, who spoke from mission control to reporters on Saturday. —

Marco Hernandez, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026 The Rocus, also known as The Bone Wreck, ran aground while transporting a cargo of cow bones to be used as fertilizer on the island, thus giving Anegada's Cow Wreck Beach its unique name. —

Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2026 Building on the bones of Detroit techno and electro, his best records are hallucinogenic portals into worlds made out of 8-bit textures, rusty bleeps, and the occasional forlorn piano or sandpapery vocal sample. —

Andrew Ryce, Pitchfork, 9 Apr. 2026 Still, collagen coffee can be a morning pick-me-up that can improve skin, hair, nails, joints, bones, gut health, and more for a radiant glow. —

Brianna Peters, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2026 What This Means for the Species The preservation of soft tissue in these specimens fills gaps that bones alone cannot. —

Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026 It’s loaded with omega-3 fatty acids, provides vitamin D (a nutrient many older adults run low on) and contains calcium from the soft, edible bones. —

Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 8 Apr. 2026 The old wounds were yellow and purple, but the turkey had no broken bones or other disabling injuries. —

Bruce Brady, Outdoor Life, 8 Apr. 2026 Throughout the property, the original building's bones— beams, tiles, pillars, and window frames—were gently restored to show their age and patina, not conceal it. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Apr. 2026

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The other three die fiery deaths in Earth's atmosphere when their time in orbit is up.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Apr. 2026
For decades, individual chips, known as dies, were removed from a single wafer and packaged into a system that connects to devices like computers, robots, cars and mobile phones.

— Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2026