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as in thin
having a noticeably small amount of body fat
that bony old horse may have been deliberately starved
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as in barren
producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation
bony hills from which sheepherders eked out a meager existence
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Recent Examples of bony
Riders follow the instructions of Redbeard (given via onboard audio), which include finding and counting gems along the shore, looking out for bony opponents in Skeleton Valley and participating in a seaworthy singalong near the finale.
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Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2023
Santiago Calatrava is best known for bridges that leap and budgets that soar, for vast and bony white-steel structures that evoke high-tech ruins of the future and cause fiscal ruin in the present.
—Curbed, 6 Dec. 2022
Its bony head armor was more like that of Asian ankyloaurs than ones from North America.
—Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2018
There are two types of fish, cartilaginous and bony.
—Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
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But at the heart, the Whiteout V2 is still a player’s stick, with a 98-square-inch head and thinner beam for players with faster swing speeds.Tim Newcomb, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
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Notes: Longer, thinner potatoes will fill the dish better than shorter, rounder potatoes.Kelly Brant, arkansasonline.com, 31 Dec. 2024
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The students tried to reduce this food loss as well as to solve the urchin barren problem in one shot and the results seemed successful.Akiko Katayama, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Schermerhorn spent more than a year between 2016 and 2017 working as a technical adviser to the Carter Center in southern Chad, often traveling by motorcycle to remote areas where people live in mud huts spread across a barren landscape.Charles Schmidt, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2024
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In January, 2016, David Cameron, the former Conservative Prime Minister, announced that the new structure would be built in Victoria Tower Gardens, a slender triangular park, overhung with forty-four plane trees, that follows the banks of the River Thames.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
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The slender giant moray (Strophidon sathete) and a few other species can also tolerate and occasionally enter lower-salinity environments such as river mouths.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Jan. 2025
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Breed: Pit bull mix Age: 1 year Buddy’s story: Buddy was found on the side of a desolate highway in the mountains.Maryanne Dell, Orange County Register, 28 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement After Japan’s 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, paving the way for the imprisonment of 120,000 people of Japanese descent — two-thirds of whom were American citizens — in desolate detention camps.Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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Graham snapped more photos in a white crop top, skinny jeans, black boots, a hot-pink puffer jacket and a wide-brimmed hat, in front of a lodge fireplace.Jen Juneau, People.com, 1 Jan. 2025
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But look, people are wearing skinny jeans again (they were similarly maligned for a time), and leopard print faux fur (very indie sleaze).Daisy Jones, Vogue, 30 Dec. 2024
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Now research is finding that specifically working nights and rotating shift schedules can leave people susceptible to depression and poor health.Andrea Muraskin, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
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The company is now facing a $500 million lawsuit from Delta, highlighting the significant consequences of software failures as a result of poor testing.Sol Rashidi, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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In addition to lean protein, like eggs, Swick says that fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, fatty fish and other healthy fats from plants should be part of each meal.Jillian Pretzel, Parents, 8 Jan. 2025
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Focus on a balanced, nutrient-dense diet rich in whole foods like vegetables, lean proteins and healthy fats.Kailey Asetov, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2025
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But beneath Pansy’s rage, often a source of that specific, bleak brand of Mike Leigh comedy, lies severe OCD, anxiety, depression, and the grief of having recently lost her mother.Radhika Seth, Vogue, 7 Jan. 2025
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While the art world has felt bleak amid a buckling market, a new art fair is gracing Los Angeles this year.Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Bony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bony. Accessed 14 Jan. 2025.
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