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
But why did skeletons, witches and ghosts start popping up as fireworks faded away?
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George Petras, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
The crew have put two giant skeletons with their arms in the air like gruesome wacky waving inflatable tube men at the Farm's entrance to catch your eye and indicate where the spooky fun is at.
—Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Foam bodies and carbon-fibre skeletons The project’s body was completed during the first installment and closely matches the properties of the digital design.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
Customers and staff would work together, spending hours over sometimes multiple days to create set pieces of skeletons and mummies, giant spiders, disembodied hands and faces emerging from the walls.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2025
Ironically, the very storm responsible for their deaths is likely what preserved their skeletons so well, the researchers said.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
Completed in 2002, Turenscape’s design reintroduced native biodiversity in the forms of plants and trees, and even incorporated some of the skeletons of the old infrastructure, such as rails and cranes, as a way of preserving the area’s history.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The film bluntly communicates the danger of football on the body and brain, with X-ray-vision scenes that show players’ skeletons bearing the impact of hellacious hits.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2025
Equip your little one with a magnifying glass and challenge them to identify different things on your trick-or-treating trip, such as pumpkins with Frankenstein’s monster carved into them or 12-foot-tall skeletons.
—Ella Cerón, Parents, 16 Sep. 2025
George Petras, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
The crew have put two giant skeletons with their arms in the air like gruesome wacky waving inflatable tube men at the Farm's entrance to catch your eye and indicate where the spooky fun is at.
—Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Foam bodies and carbon-fibre skeletons The project’s body was completed during the first installment and closely matches the properties of the digital design.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
Customers and staff would work together, spending hours over sometimes multiple days to create set pieces of skeletons and mummies, giant spiders, disembodied hands and faces emerging from the walls.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2025
Ironically, the very storm responsible for their deaths is likely what preserved their skeletons so well, the researchers said.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
Completed in 2002, Turenscape’s design reintroduced native biodiversity in the forms of plants and trees, and even incorporated some of the skeletons of the old infrastructure, such as rails and cranes, as a way of preserving the area’s history.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The film bluntly communicates the danger of football on the body and brain, with X-ray-vision scenes that show players’ skeletons bearing the impact of hellacious hits.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2025
Equip your little one with a magnifying glass and challenge them to identify different things on your trick-or-treating trip, such as pumpkins with Frankenstein’s monster carved into them or 12-foot-tall skeletons.
—Ella Cerón, Parents, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skeletons
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The project, according to its environmental analysis, will have 7,040 total parking spaces that are spread across multiple structures within residential and mixed-use buildings.—
Jennifer Van Grove,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Sep. 2025
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From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of glass and bright white structures.—
Chris Impey,
The Conversation,
23 Sep. 2025
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The result is a bill that insists on safety frameworks, incident reports, whistleblower protections, and a public compute resource, but stops short of imposing the same sweeping mandates that alarmed lawmakers and industry last year.—
The AI Insider,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Sep. 2025
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In the book, Buzsáki explores the different frameworks for understanding the brain in neuroscience.—
Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
19 Sep. 2025
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Legacy platforms carry decades of product architectures optimized for email, documents, and collaboration as separate entities.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025
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Skunk Works is investing the funds and manpower necessary to build and test survivable systems to meet customers’ evolving needs while broadening alignment with new tri-service architectures and global requirements as they are defined, according to a press release.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Sep. 2025
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“Skeletons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skeletons. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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