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Recent Examples of craniumOf course, something similar typified our evolution, too, which can all too easily be cast as the blossoming forth of ever-plumper craniums.—Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025 Eventually, the villager spotted something unexpected—the nearly complete cranium of an unknown, ancient hominin protruding from a small chamber’s interior wall.—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2025 Then, the snakes swallow the prey whole, sometimes downing shockingly large animals thanks to the stretchy connective tissue between their cranium and lower jaw.—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2025 The man kept the Harbin cranium well hidden as he was instructed to hide it from the Japanese army.—Nick Butler, FOXNews.com, 21 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for cranium
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cranium
skull
Noun
Among the injuries the child suffered, Hestrin said, were a partial bone fracture of the skull, a brain hemorrhage and injuries to the ribs and legs.
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Madeline Morrison,
NBC news,
17 Oct. 2025
Festivities also include face painting, sugar skull decorating and paper flower workshop along with a lowrider car show by the Callejeros de Encinitas Car Club, artist demonstrations, vendors and food truck.
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Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Oct. 2025
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