death's-heads

plural of death's-head

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Noun
  • With 10 days to go until the New York mayoral election, Zohran Mamdani maintains a clear and consistent lead in the race, polls show.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • In the short-term, this means coming to a compromise on the electoral system, and holding polls in a timely fashion next year.
    Omar S Mahmood, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Other figures include handmade chess sets, religious figurines like the Virgin of Guadalupe and skulls made to resemble calaveras, or sugar skulls, which are a symbol tied to Day of the Dead.
    Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • And there are more gameplay modifiers (known as skulls in the Halo universe) than ever before, which allow players to add some extra difficulty and chaos to their sessions.
    Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • While the night celebrated Mamdani’s coalition of Democratic Socialist of America leaders, labor union heads, and activists, the rally also reflected how far Mamdani had come from an unknown, leftist state assemblyman, polling under one percent, to a darling of the Democratic mainstream.
    Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Typically, though, those same soldiers wouldn’t just hang their heads—they’d be preparing for another launch attack.
    Jake Kring-Schreifels, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
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“Death's-heads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/death%27s-heads. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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