death's-head

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Noun
  • But previous polls suggested Sherrill was commanding the support of the electorate.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Most mainstream polls show Sherrill leading Ciattarelli, but in some cases the margin is smaller than might be expected in the historically blue state.
    Joe Hernandez, NPR, 21 Oct. 2025
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.
    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.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The pate is made with fish meat harvested to reduce leftover waste from caviar farming, according to the company’s website.
    Camila Pedrosa July 6, Sacbee.com, 6 July 2025
  • Nashville haunt, with its sliced pork, pate and bologna.
    Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • Keith Pelley has had four months now to get a closer glimpse of the day-to-day operations of the Toronto Maple Leafs via close interactions with general manager Brad Treliving and head coach Craig Berube.
    Pierre LeBrun, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • But Netflix head Bela Bajaria didn’t seem into it.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The reconstructed cranium appeared large and long, with a broad and flat braincase, according to the paper.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 26 Sep. 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
Noun
  • Special shout-out to Lupita Nyong'o, whose dual-role performance wins her the creepy crown, hands down.
    Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
  • While zirconia crowns are available, they are milled, a process that limits design complexity and carries risks of micro-cracking.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Dart flung himself noggin-first into an Eagles defender in Week 5, and has been evaluated for a concussion three times in four games.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
  • While surveying a hillside, Mongolian paleontologist Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig of North Carolina State University and a co-author of the new paper, discovered the top of a dinosaur’s noggin sticking out of a cliff.
    Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Necrosis – the death of body tissue – progressed to her face and scalp.
    Aishwarya S. Iyer, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The low ceilings have a taste for scalp DNA.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
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“Death's-head.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/death%27s-head. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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