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 skeletons were found on the grounds of the Josephine Baker school complex in Dijon, roughly 195 miles southeast of Paris.
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Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 11 Apr. 2026
And, in a market increasingly comfortable selling wares from dinosaur skeletons to space memorabilia, a staircase—however historic—feels almost modest.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 9 Apr. 2026
Besides common items like shirts, pants, and headphones, the company also comes across unique stuff like space artifacts, fake skeletons, and musical instruments.
—Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 9 Apr. 2026
Holmes would target tourists in town for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, butcher them, and sell their skeletons to medical schools.
—Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Apr. 2026
When the populist demagogue Willie Stark orders Burden, journalist turned gumshoe, to dig up dirt on a local judge, Burden demurs; certainly there are no skeletons in the office of the good judge.
—Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
At one point there’s a throwaway bit involving a roller coaster that dives into a pit of lava, eventually emerging with all its passengers transformed into happy skeletons; maybe we are supposed to be those happy skeletons, drained of life and loving it.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2026
Another discovery was a new chimaera — a type of animal related to sharks and rays, which have cartilaginous rather than bony skeletons.
—Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 31 Mar. 2026
White also described a new chimaera — a type of animal related to sharks and rays, which have cartilaginous rather than bony skeletons.
—Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Mar. 2026
Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 11 Apr. 2026
And, in a market increasingly comfortable selling wares from dinosaur skeletons to space memorabilia, a staircase—however historic—feels almost modest.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 9 Apr. 2026
Besides common items like shirts, pants, and headphones, the company also comes across unique stuff like space artifacts, fake skeletons, and musical instruments.
—Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 9 Apr. 2026
Holmes would target tourists in town for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, butcher them, and sell their skeletons to medical schools.
—Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Apr. 2026
When the populist demagogue Willie Stark orders Burden, journalist turned gumshoe, to dig up dirt on a local judge, Burden demurs; certainly there are no skeletons in the office of the good judge.
—Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
At one point there’s a throwaway bit involving a roller coaster that dives into a pit of lava, eventually emerging with all its passengers transformed into happy skeletons; maybe we are supposed to be those happy skeletons, drained of life and loving it.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2026
Another discovery was a new chimaera — a type of animal related to sharks and rays, which have cartilaginous rather than bony skeletons.
—Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 31 Mar. 2026
White also described a new chimaera — a type of animal related to sharks and rays, which have cartilaginous rather than bony skeletons.
—Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skeletons
Noun
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Much of the wooden buildings were destroyed by fire in 1923, later replaced with brick structures.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
10 Apr. 2026
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Some structures on the grounds are 200 years old, salvaged from the hog farm that was on the property 40-plus years ago.—
Teresa Woodard,
Midwest Living,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Most current educational models were built on frameworks from the 1920s, optimized for uniformity and rote instruction, not for the range of students in classrooms today.—
Sherri Helvie,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2026
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Covalent organic frameworks have been explored as potential electrolyte materials because of their porous and stable structures.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Apr. 2026
Noun
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What looked like a narrow corridor of cosmic architectures now opens into an embarrassment of possibilities.—
Paul M. Sutter,
Scientific American,
27 Mar. 2026
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Organizations may experiment constantly, yet their architectures of experimentation increasingly resemble one another.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Mar. 2026
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