bones 1 of 2

plural of bone
1
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

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Noun
  • The company makes products such as window frames and facades in the country through extrusion, which is the process of pushing aluminum through a die to create a specific shape.
    Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 9 May 2025
  • Many of those infected develop respiratory failure as their lungs fill with fluid and more than a third die.
    Judy Stone, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But most importantly, Cuban wore his heart on his jacket sleeves for fellow entrepreneurs coming onto the show.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 18 May 2025
  • When the call came that a donor heart was available, Robinson was hit with a wave of emotion.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • Look down and see the five little roach corpses and six live roaches on the ground in the bar and the other three on the ground in kitchen storage.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 9 May 2025
  • Every morning, prisoners lined up for inspection alongside the corpses of those who had died in the night heaped in a pile next to them.
    Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • As Williams clung to him the way a remora fish clings to the belly of a shark, the refs looked at the carnage — and immediately whistled Joker for a ticky-tack offensive foul.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 13 May 2025
  • In the picture, Brown — who first stepped out publicly with Newton at Milan Fashion Week in 2022 —cradled her bare belly while just wearing an open white robe.
    Becca Longmire, People.com, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Alarmed animal lovers are demanding answers as dead birds repeatedly plummet from the sky, with the carcasses falling on a quiet residential street.
    Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
  • Grizzly 1058 had likely been dead for three to seven days, based on the fact that roughly 20 percent of the carcass had been scavenged, per the Jackson Hole News & Guide.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2025
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  • Based on these findings, Ahmed and Dr. Jeffrey Gordon from the Washington University at St. Louis developed a treatment that incorporates beneficial gut bugs that could be easily dispensed into food products by local producers.
    Charlotte Hu, Time, 14 May 2025
  • Probiotics help maximize the diversity of microorganisms in your gut, promoting a healthy gut microbiome.
    Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Two graduate students, Alice and Peter, must travel to hell in order to save their professor’s soul, and yes, there’s a bit of will-they-or-won’t-they romance.
    Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
  • The moon’s connection to Mars presents the perfect opportunity to lay your soul bare.
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Factors that raise your risk of stroke The accumulation of plaque (or cholesterol) in the arteries, which raises the risk of blood clotting, is caused by a number of risk factors.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 16 May 2025
  • Doctors have started using gene-editing treatments like CRISPR to treat devastating genetic blood disorders such as sickle cell disease, and are studying experimental gene-editing therapies for other diseases, including cancer, inherited high cholesterol and some forms of genetic blindness.
    Rob Stein, NPR, 15 May 2025
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“Bones.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bones. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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