as in structures
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 skeletons
The first floor also includes the Oakton Reading Room, several focus rooms, a huddle room for collaboration and tables featuring models of skeletons and more for the college’s extensive health curriculum, as well as staff offices and college archives.
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Elizabeth Owens-Schiele, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
The next Beckham documentary will have a lot more skeletons to contend with.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2026
Cue the Mayhem Ball, the pop star’s eighth concert tour, where Lady Gaga rises from a sand pit populated with skeletons, scales up a dress the size of a multi-story apartment building, and unravels the longest gown train a bride could ever dream of.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 8 Jan. 2026
The entire archipelago was built from the stuff, whether deposited from ocean sediments or from coral skeletons.
—Henry Wismayer, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026
At Cummins, an inmate informant told him there were as many as 200 skeletons buried not far from the barracks.
—Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2025
And there’s the Arizona Museum of Natural History in Mesa, which has highlight attractions like dinosaur skeletons.
—Alexandra Hardle, AZCentral.com, 13 Dec. 2025
Archaeologists documented burials that followed traditional Islamic rituals; skeletons were laid with their bodies facing north and their faces turned toward the Qibla, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 6 Dec. 2025
Two human skeletons lie entangled on the rough earth – the arms of one wrapped around the other’s head, as though protecting them from danger.
—Helen Regan, CNN Money, 30 Nov. 2025
Elizabeth Owens-Schiele, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
The next Beckham documentary will have a lot more skeletons to contend with.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2026
Cue the Mayhem Ball, the pop star’s eighth concert tour, where Lady Gaga rises from a sand pit populated with skeletons, scales up a dress the size of a multi-story apartment building, and unravels the longest gown train a bride could ever dream of.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 8 Jan. 2026
The entire archipelago was built from the stuff, whether deposited from ocean sediments or from coral skeletons.
—Henry Wismayer, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026
At Cummins, an inmate informant told him there were as many as 200 skeletons buried not far from the barracks.
—Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2025
And there’s the Arizona Museum of Natural History in Mesa, which has highlight attractions like dinosaur skeletons.
—Alexandra Hardle, AZCentral.com, 13 Dec. 2025
Archaeologists documented burials that followed traditional Islamic rituals; skeletons were laid with their bodies facing north and their faces turned toward the Qibla, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 6 Dec. 2025
Two human skeletons lie entangled on the rough earth – the arms of one wrapped around the other’s head, as though protecting them from danger.
—Helen Regan, CNN Money, 30 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skeletons
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Managing subscription bundles across dozens of countries — each with different telecom partners, regulatory requirements, and pricing structures — used to require dedicated operations teams for each region.—
Kolawole Samuel Adebayo,
Forbes.com,
25 Jan. 2026
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While other episodic galaxies are expected to have similar structures, J1007+3540’s are especially clear.—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
24 Jan. 2026
Noun
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At the core of this approach is a carbon shell derived from covalent organic frameworks (COFs).—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Jan. 2026
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But ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO Darren Woods said there would need to be significant changes in the country’s legal and commercial frameworks in order to produce oil there.—
Ray Lewis,
Baltimore Sun,
12 Jan. 2026
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Define repeatable reference architectures for your small data centers.—
Chhandomay Mandal,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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The company says this differs from conventional AI architectures, which typically rely on direct access to raw or lightly processed data.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Skeletons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skeletons. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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