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Recent Examples of gullets
This mix is a scrumptious way to get vegetables happily down the kid’s gullets.
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Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 13 Jan. 2026
Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 13 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gullets
Noun
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Conversations that are not confrontational but still have players shielding their mouths from public view will continue to be permitted without penalty.—
Tim Reynolds,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2026
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Very soon, from the sofa behind Adele, loud enough to be heard over Disney, there came a smacking of mouths and saliva.—
Jonathan Franzen,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
Noun
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Feeding black holes also usually emit copious ultraviolet radiation from the white-hot disks of material that pile up around their insatiable maws.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
14 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Visitors entering the SoHo gallery’s second floor pass through the open jaws of a towering wolf sculpture, one of three oversized works commissioned from Garel specifically for the gallery.—
Thomas Waller,
Footwear News,
4 June 2026
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The jaws appear to belong to organisms that resembled octopuses, but their exact classification, size in life and potential ecological role remain a mystery, according to the ScienceNews.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
Cite this Entry
“Gullets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gullets. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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