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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
Joe Holden, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
Torney was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer with recurring tumors that eat away at bone marrow, damaging bones and the immune system.
—Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
The Darling, Copenhagen Housed within the bones of a magnificent 18th-century building, The Darling is a trio of intimate apartments tucked away in Copenhagen’s historic centre.
—Stephanie Gavan, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2026
Inside the bag were the mummified remains of two small children, three skulls and other bones, according to the affidavit.
—Emma Caughlan, NBC news, 9 Jan. 2026
These nutrients help build healthy bones and teeth as well as support immune health.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 8 Jan. 2026
This can weaken bones, create kidney stones, and affect the heart and brain.
—Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 8 Jan. 2026
Partezana, now 95, still experiences pain related to how the blast affected his bones and cartilage.
—Hope Hodge Seck, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
There is something awe-inspiring about sitting with the bones of a story.
—Amber McBride, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
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Police also confirm in court papers that additional bones and eight corpses were discovered in a storage locker.
—Joe Holden, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
Torney was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer with recurring tumors that eat away at bone marrow, damaging bones and the immune system.
—Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
The Darling, Copenhagen Housed within the bones of a magnificent 18th-century building, The Darling is a trio of intimate apartments tucked away in Copenhagen’s historic centre.
—Stephanie Gavan, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2026
Inside the bag were the mummified remains of two small children, three skulls and other bones, according to the affidavit.
—Emma Caughlan, NBC news, 9 Jan. 2026
These nutrients help build healthy bones and teeth as well as support immune health.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 8 Jan. 2026
This can weaken bones, create kidney stones, and affect the heart and brain.
—Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 8 Jan. 2026
Partezana, now 95, still experiences pain related to how the blast affected his bones and cartilage.
—Hope Hodge Seck, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
There is something awe-inspiring about sitting with the bones of a story.
—Amber McBride, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
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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Kipling City Pack Backpack Pocket space is at the very heart of this backpack’s design, which has over five different compartments on the interior and exterior.—
Michelle Baricevic,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Jan. 2026
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What the museum dream team did not see was the pain in our hearts about this jail.—
Dorothy Jenkins Fields,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
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The cemetery has been thrust into the spotlight after a Lancaster County man was accused of harvesting sets of human remains in the middle of the night, hoarding skulls, bones, and corpses, and then offering some of them for sale on his social media accounts.—
Joe Holden,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2026
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Video shows corpses outside capital Meanwhile, video circulating online purports to show dozens of bodies in a morgue on the outskirts of Iran’s capital.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
12 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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The team stabilized the carcass before carefully removing it from the vessel and transporting it to a secure location, where experts plan to conduct a necropsy to determine the exact cause of death and confirm the species.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
7 Jan. 2026
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Anyway, officials from California State Parks and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife said there’s nothing unusual about the lobster carcasses washing up on the beach.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
7 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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Senior commerce editor Nashia Baker dresses her mattress with these and is a fan of their design and breathable feel.—
Nora Taylor,
Architectural Digest,
29 Dec. 2025
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In a matter of eight days, the Hornets (14-26) have gone from pummeling the defending champion in Oklahoma City to losing consecutive games at home to Toronto and Indiana in gut-wrenching fashion to recording the largest margin of victory on the road in franchise history by pounding Utah.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Jan. 2026
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In healthy people, gut bacteria coexist peacefully and play an essential role in digestive health — but in Crohn’s patients, the immune system appears to mount an abnormal response against the microbes, experts say.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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