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What are bare bones?

What are bare bones? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The essential elements of something, described without going into detail.
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But maybe I'm just a bit old-school, and think it's better just to show the bare bones.
It cuts the story back to the bare bones but is visually interesting, even for those not very familiar with Shakespeare's text.
The cropped timespan, 22 minutes in a half hour television broadcast, means that everything must be to the bare bones.
But this powerful novel forces the reader on board, putting flesh on the bare bones of that well-known story.
As laws are laid down, the principles of justice on which they were founded crystallise and one is left with the bare bones of legal rules.
What do you imagine will happen when Jesus raises us all from the dead, putting muscle and flesh on dry bare bones?

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