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Recent Examples of cranium
The other two craniums were found in 1990.
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Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Dec. 2025
At one point, a character is forced to stand in front of an automatic football launcher and take a series of pigskins to the cranium, each of which is shot at him with increasing speed.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025
Of 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
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Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Dec. 2025
At one point, a character is forced to stand in front of an automatic football launcher and take a series of pigskins to the cranium, each of which is shot at him with increasing speed.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025
Of 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cranium
skull
Noun
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But at least some of the Vesuvian victims probably died instantaneously from the intense heat of fast-moving lava flows, with temperatures high enough to boil brains and explode skulls.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
18 May 2026
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In that release, MCSO included photos of bones and skulls, presumably of deceased bison, and presumably taken on the Lay Valley property.—
Logan Smith,
CBS News,
18 May 2026
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“Cranium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cranium. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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