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Recent Examples of cranium
Of course, something similar typified our evolution, too, which can all too easily be cast as the blossoming forth of ever-plumper craniums.
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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
And a hominin cranium was found in 2002 in a travertine quarry in southwestern Turkey.
—Ashley Belanger – May 22, ArsTechnica, 22 May 2025
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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
And a hominin cranium was found in 2002 in a travertine quarry in southwestern Turkey.
—Ashley Belanger – May 22, ArsTechnica, 22 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cranium
skull
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He was tagged and pictured holding a skull on the group page, ABC 6 reported.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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Investigators later searched the Ephrata home and storage unit of Jonathan Christ Gerlach, 34, and reported finding more than 100 human skulls, long bones, mummified hands and feet, two decomposing torsos and other skeletal items.—
Mark Scolforo,
Fortune,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Cranium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cranium. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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