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as in devices
a habitual attraction to some activity or thing
he hasn't a competitive bone in his body
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as in heart
usually bones plural
the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions
I could feel in my bones that I had just met my future wife
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as in damn
to a great degree
grew up in a backwoods area that was bone poor
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as in to dress
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Recent Examples of bone
Sydney Bishop, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
Research carried out along with the more recent excavations suggested that the bones belonged to a man 30 to 40 years old at the time of death.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
Shelly Hagan, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
Late at night in November 2011, Ted Flores was coming home from running errands in Highland, Ind., when a car T-boned his at an intersection.
—Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2019
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Noun
Henkel, the film’s screenwriter, said the brutal, almost animalistic violence in the film was an intentional exploration of what scares us down to our bones.
—Sydney Bishop, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
Research carried out along with the more recent excavations suggested that the bones belonged to a man 30 to 40 years old at the time of death.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
Verb
To ensure the essential supply of chicken for Canadians across the country, the poultry industry as a whole is shifting away from de-boning chicken legs to increase their production capacity.
—Shelly Hagan, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
Late at night in November 2011, Ted Flores was coming home from running errands in Highland, Ind., when a car T-boned his at an intersection.
—Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2019
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To execute their extraordinary calculations, quantum computers need to be kept inside large cooling devices to prevent them from overheating.Leslie Katz, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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Some of the new security and privacy advances—live threat detection and cellular network defense, for example—may or may not hit Samsung devices on release.Zak Doffman, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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The larger and more spread out V-Cache die that's still 64MB in capacity also likely helps with thermals as the heat production extends over a larger area.PCMAG, PCMAG, 6 Nov. 2024
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Nearly 48 million people are sickened each year from a foodborne illness, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die, the CDC estimates.Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 26 Oct. 2024
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In today’s deal, North’s leap to four hearts is preemptive, and West doubles that outrage with his 23 high-card points.Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Scherzinger wrote alongside a prayer emoji and a heart emoji.Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2024
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Governor Newsom has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in its retail theft taskforce, with the California Highway Patrol making thousands of arrests, but when asked about how many thieves have actually been prosecuted, the state doesn’t have the answers.Todd Spitzer, Orange County Register, 11 Nov. 2024
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The district is losing tens of millions of dollars a year in state funding as fewer children enroll in Denver schools.Jessica Seaman, The Denver Post, 9 Nov. 2024
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Case closed, with what’s left of Sofia’s car and Sal Maroni’s whole corpse lying in the rubble for good measure.Andy Andersen, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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The sight of Till’s mutilated and decomposed corpse at his open-casket funeral galvanized the civil-rights movement.Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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According to Goldy, a manager dressed in a floor-length silver-gray pleather gown, a typical selection at W Salon is at least $2,000.Talia Lavin, Curbed, 7 Nov. 2024
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All game, four fans dressed in Tatum USA jerseys sat next to Kerr along the visiting bench.Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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Although the natural inclination is to think of a marathon as something done on foot, or by people who are known as ambulatory, the NYC Marathon does have a program for the race that’s inclusive of wheelchair users.Steven Aquino, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Smullen’s inclinations here reek of resentment rather than a healthier competitiveness that would drive him to bring a solid case against his main suspect.Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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Aging a buck before peak rut: Check stomach girth; the older a buck gets, the bigger his belly gets.Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
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Sharing a photo of herself on the red carpet, Breeds wore a tight pink dress that accentuated her bump, posing with her hand on top of her belly.Hannah Sacks, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Bone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bone. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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