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For their part, Chinese specialists visiting Los Alamos and other U.S. labs are boning up on techniques for forensic analysis of nuclear materials at COE.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 31, 2017

“It looks like you cut off part of a dead chick’s face and are boning it,” I said.

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2014

Foundations are usually executed by excavators or navvies, and the tools and implements used are boning rods, level pegs, lines, spirit level, pickaxe, various shovels, wheel-barrow, rammer or punner, &c.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various