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Recent Examples of skull
Jane Horowitz,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
His son Malachi Waiters suffered injuries, including a fractured skull, and died from the crash.
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Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2026
Daniel Rapaport,
SI.com,
17 June 2019
This leaves one big question: Why were people drilling into one another’s skulls 5,000 years ago in the first place?
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Jason Daley,
Smithsonian,
25 Apr. 2018
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Noun
The painting depicts Mary Magdalene with long, flowing hair, draped in a regal red garment and clutching a skull — a contemporary interpretation of one of Christianity’s most enduring figures.
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Jane Horowitz,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
His son Malachi Waiters suffered injuries, including a fractured skull, and died from the crash.
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Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2026
Verb
The ball was sitting on such tight grass that he easily could have chunked or skulled it.
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Daniel Rapaport,
SI.com,
17 June 2019
This leaves one big question: Why were people drilling into one another’s skulls 5,000 years ago in the first place?
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Jason Daley,
Smithsonian,
25 Apr. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skull
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In the case of the female individual, the authors noted an unusual break at the base of the cranium that likely occurred near the time of death.
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Scratches inside her cranium point to the removal of her brain, while long bones like the humeri, femur, and ulna were carved down to sharp points.
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There were biscuits hard enough to brain a bear with.
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Retro Rewind is the kind of game that will keep your hands and brain minimally busy while listening to a podcast or watching some rerun on a background TV.
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Jafaar al-Samra had just sold an octopus, minutes after spearing it while snorkeling.
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But Breakker was there to spear Rollins.
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In the last meeting between these teams in early November, Bane beaned Okongwu in the head with the ball after flagrantly fouling him and was ejected from the game.
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Detmers came in to face the top of the order and beaned Brandon Nimmo to load the bases for Francisco Lindor, who beat out a double play to score Alvarez, and stole second to put runners on second and third.
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Visuals also showed some people receiving CPR. Uncontrollable crowd Police started caning people at one gate, leading to more chaos, said Mithun Singh, a software engineer among the crowd.
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Both failed to fire, and the hero of the Battle of New Orleans, with a hair-trigger temper, began caning the would-be assassin.
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Then — and this is important — she gets conked on the head and wakes up in an entirely different movie.
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Could there be any truth to the fan theory that Greg was hiding on the boat when Tanya killed Quentin and his minions, then fatally conked herself in the head while escaping?
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The only offense against Burns came in the third inning, when Ben Rice clubbed his 22nd home run to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead.
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Jurors deliberated for a week before voting to convict 48-year-old Francesca Lopez in the death of Felipe Lopez-Custodio, who was clubbed to death with a piece of scrap wood and strangled with a cord inside his apartment on Jacqueline Way in Concord.
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“Skull.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skull. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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