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Recent Examples of exoskeletonTo compensate, LeMessurier developed a structural bracing system to act like an exoskeleton.—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025 But the animal would also be pretty feeble at this stage — if this happened in a very short period of time, the muscle growth wouldn't be able to keep up with the expansion of the exoskeleton.—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2025 Cold sensitivity in mammalian teeth evolved from the exoskeletons of armored fish.—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025 Sarcos says that one worker in an exoskeleton can handle tasks that would otherwise take between 4 and 10 people.—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2019 See All Example Sentences for exoskeleton
Inkas’s Defender Octa may look just like the stock model, but the entire vehicle, including the cabin, side panels, roof, and underbody, has been equipped with stainless steel armor and multi-layer ballistic glass.
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Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
30 Sep. 2025
But if blithe grandiosity was Stein’s armor, there was a chink in it.
Also in the Tuamotus, on the atoll of Tikehau, divers head out to Tuheiava Pass with Tikehau Diving for regular sightings of mantas at a cleaning station (pinnacles that draw large fish to have their gills, teeth, and carapaces cleaned by smaller ones).
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Terry Ward,
AFAR Media,
11 Sep. 2025
The carapace, or hard exterior, is smooth and without small hairs, according to the study.
The Saints drove for a field goal to pull within 14-6, and then Daboll went into a shell with punts on fourth-and-4 from New York’s 48-yard line and fourth-and-2 from New York’s 48-yard line on the next two possessions.
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Dan Duggan,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
Once baked and cooled, the airy shells of the pastry are filled with cream and finished with a glossy chocolate glaze.
Traditional battery manufacturing encases electrodes in individual cell casings, which are then bundled into modules.
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Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Oct. 2025
The bullet casing had the same tool markings – unique individual indentations that guns produce on casings once they have been expended – to a gun used in an unsolved murder in Kentucky in 1998.
These are essentially black holes feeding on their surrounding matter with such speed that a cocoon of surrounding gas starts to glow like a bright star.
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Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Sep. 2025
For Perrie Edwards, the studio can be both a sanctuary and a suffocating cocoon.
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