as in structure
the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form
Native Americans covered the skeletons of their wigwams with bark, rush mats, or hides
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Recent Examples of skeleton
About half the skeletons were found in what appear to be burial vaults, associated with the medieval church.
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Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
The TikTok user labeled the skeletons as the unsung albums that Gaga, 39, posed with at one point during her set.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Teeth imprints of a large cat were found in the skeleton of a man buried in a cemetery just outside York, a city in northeast England founded by the ancient Romans.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2025
While researchers have carried out extensive studies on the cemetery and its remains, a mystery lingered: a skeleton with unexplained depressions on the pelvis that resembled bites from a carnivore.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025
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Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
The TikTok user labeled the skeletons as the unsung albums that Gaga, 39, posed with at one point during her set.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Teeth imprints of a large cat were found in the skeleton of a man buried in a cemetery just outside York, a city in northeast England founded by the ancient Romans.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2025
While researchers have carried out extensive studies on the cemetery and its remains, a mystery lingered: a skeleton with unexplained depressions on the pelvis that resembled bites from a carnivore.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skeleton
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As the sun sets on century-old structures and the dirt gives way to bulldozers for a multimillion-dollar rebuild, Pimlico Race Course hosted an exciting 150th Preakness Stakes on Saturday.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
18 May 2025
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While there is no way for an AI assistant to replace a genuine human connection, a comforting presence can go a long way if no other support structure is available.—
Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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The regulatory backdrop is significant, too Days before the trip, the U.S. Commerce Department rescinded the Biden-era AI Diffusion Rule, a sweeping framework that would have imposed tiered export controls across dozens of countries.—
Catherine Baab,
Quartz,
14 May 2025
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As religious participation declines, one important answer is to create secular frameworks that similarly build common meaning and shared purpose among people—qualities that machines, by definition, cannot provide.—
Kim Samuel,
Time,
14 May 2025
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Both Hull and his production team and the Disney+ series’s own VFX team use the weight of Barbican estate style and brutalist architecture to create the sense of order being imposed on those lower levels of the city.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
10 May 2025
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As organizations ship more features, spin up new services, and adopt increasingly complex architectures, the volume of observability data expands in parallel.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
9 May 2025
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“Skeleton.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skeleton. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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