alveolar

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for alveolar
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Adjective
  • Three months ago, manager John Schneider stood in the cavernous hallway outside Yankee Stadium’s road clubhouse.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • An infection here can cause cavernous sinus thrombosis, a blood clot that may result in facial paralysis, stroke, or death.1 What Is the 'Triangle of Death'?
    Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Taking on classic buddy-comedy attributes, Sam is the together one with a programmatic path toward life as a wealthy but hollow finance twerp, while Ari is the brash, cracked, less-medicated-than-he-should-be bull in a china shop.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
  • For anyone who haven’t heard about NuPhy’s GhostBar, this is how the company’s designers stop the larger keys from rattling and sounding cheap and hollow.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In particular, the concave deck feels a lot like a skateboard and allows for better board feel and control—enabling Payne to do actual kick-flips on the wave.
    Rob Reed, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The bell and diaphragm devices have a wide, flat side for high frequencies and a smaller, concave side for low frequencies.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Alveolar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alveolar. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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