hammerheads

plural of hammerhead

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Recent Examples of hammerheads Elphinstone Reef consistently ranks among the world’s best dive sites thanks to its abundance of healthy soft corals and frequent shark sightings, including the chance to see everything from thresher sharks to scalloped hammerheads. Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025 We are not meant to be hammerheads in a world of nails. Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025 Smooth hammerheads and blacktip sharks spent comparatively more time near the surface, whereas white sharks, spinner sharks, and dusky sharks were active throughout much of the water column. Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025 Species include the Caribbean reef shark, oceanic white tips, great hammerheads, tiger sharks and bull sharks. Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hammerheads
Noun
  • Anyone that votes for those people are absolute idiots.
    Gerardo Zavala, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Because some of them act like complete idiots, but Wendy is constantly outsmarting everyone.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But for the most part, these competitors were dummies all around, with even the biggest threats deeply flawed or actively annoying in some way.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The band’s fans gleefully push to the front of their gigs in order to get blasted with any manner of fake bodily fluids that erupt from the towering, cartoonish dummies.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • So that episode will make fun [of] billionaire life-extension body-hacking lunatics.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Whether those people are sickened by grief and rage into a kind of temporary insanity, genuine lunatics, hustlers looking to milk a little more engagement or some combination of the three doesn’t really matter.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Now, researchers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich are putting these mechanical mutts through their paces on the badminton court, teaching them to play about as well as a seven-year-old human.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The Soviet Sputnik 5 carried mutts Belka and Strelka, 40 mice and two rats.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025

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“Hammerheads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hammerheads. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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