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Doctors told him he’d only suffered minor damage to the hyoid bone in his neck and cricoid cartilage around his voice box.—Outside, 10 Feb. 2026 She was followed by Snoozie Smiles, which had two faces—one happy, one sad—and a voice box that imitated baby sounds, something that Thomas Edison had tried and failed to pull off three decades earlier.—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026 Spasmodic dysphonia is a chronic neurological voice disorder that causes involuntary spasms in the muscles of the larynx (voice box), leading to interruptions in speech.—Hannah Parry
amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025 The procedure meant Jordan avoided a total laryngectomy, which would have permanently removed his voice box and left him unable to speak.—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for voice box