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Recent Examples of alveolar
But in fact these dental alveolar syndesmoses (technical speak for the tiny ligamentous joint between the tooth and jaw socket) move all the time.
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Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2025
Getting a tooth pulled carries a risk of experiencing a dry socket, also known as alveolar osteitis.
—Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 19 Oct. 2024
Doctors diagnosed Anderson with stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare soft tissue cancer, in 2018.
—Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2024
Inside our lungs, white blood cells called alveolar macrophages work to keep the airways clean by engulfing and digesting debris, including dust and dead cells.
—Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2015
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Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2025
Getting a tooth pulled carries a risk of experiencing a dry socket, also known as alveolar osteitis.
—Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 19 Oct. 2024
Doctors diagnosed Anderson with stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare soft tissue cancer, in 2018.
—Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2024
Inside our lungs, white blood cells called alveolar macrophages work to keep the airways clean by engulfing and digesting debris, including dust and dead cells.
—Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2015
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alveolar
Adjective
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Accommodating 250 smart leather reclining seats, the EPIC by Vue room in Nottingham is large, without being overly cavernous.—
Benny Har-Even,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Several other big-time names have visited the roughly 99-acre campus and called dibs on the cavernous spaces, in many cases planning to produce new site-specific pieces, but Mourmans is not ready to reveal their identities publicly.—
Julie Belcove,
Robb Report,
27 July 2025
Adjective
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At Dock’s Oyster House in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the Pommes Soufflé is an elevated version of a french fry, that is crispy on the outside and completely hollow on the inside.—
Aly Walansky,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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For the lighter portions to have as little weight as possible, even the carbon-fiber frames had to be hollow.—
Elise Cutts,
Wired News,
10 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The shape of the droplets primarily demonstrate whispering-gallery mode light emission, where the light travels around a concave surface, bouncing along the inside surface.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
13 July 2025
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Alpine slides are similar but have a continuous, concave surface instead of a track.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
4 July 2025
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“Alveolar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alveolar. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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