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foreleg

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as in forelimb

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Recent Examples of foreleg The larger forelegs are attached to a piece of shell right beneath the head; do your best to keep these connected while peeling the shrimp. — Greg Chelmis, Saveur, 10 July 2025 The horse was a last minute addition for the Kentucky Derby field and will be taking the place of Tappan Street, a Florida Derby winner who cannot compete due to an injury to his right foreleg. — Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 One foreleg was tucked under his body and the other stretched out in front. — Jim Carmichel, Outdoor Life, 5 June 2025 The Raptors version features a dial in multiple shades of green, this time with three claw marks, reminiscent of the velociraptors’ forelegs. — Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 23 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for foreleg

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Researchers compared the skeletons of 85 dinosaur species and discovered a correlation among five dinosaur groups with big skulls having shorter forelimbs (the tyrannosoids, ceratosaurids, megalosaurids, abelisaurids and carcharodontosaurids).

— Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 26 May 2026
Andre Rowe, a paleobiologist and a senior research associate at England’s University of Bristol, agreed that the most interesting finding of the study is how widespread the small forelimb trend was.

— Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 25 May 2026

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The first 100 guests will receive a free two-piece chicken-leg and thigh meal — no purchase necessary, only available inside the restaurant.

— Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 22 July 2026
Depth is also short on the right side of attack, with just two natural right wingers; one of those is Dejan Kulusevski, who has been injured for over a year, and the other is Mohammed Kudus, who was sidelined in January with a thigh injury.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 21 July 2026

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