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Recent Examples of mandible
The man, named Bawrgiyo Jaw, is possessed of a tremendous mandible, and the black tips of his spectacles loop over the tops of ears that enclose a full head of black hair.
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Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
The animal dislodged the boy’s mandible, left a groove in his skull, broke his clavicle and left a bite mark on his right ankle.
—Sara Novak, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2026
On April 10 of this year, the dog was found with another bone — a femur this time — in the yard, and a search of the property also turned up a human mandible, or jawbone, that also belonged to the same victim.
—David Chiu, PEOPLE, 25 Dec. 2025
Even in a single hole of a mandible, there are up to six generations of bees coming back to that same single hole.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
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Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
The animal dislodged the boy’s mandible, left a groove in his skull, broke his clavicle and left a bite mark on his right ankle.
—Sara Novak, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2026
On April 10 of this year, the dog was found with another bone — a femur this time — in the yard, and a search of the property also turned up a human mandible, or jawbone, that also belonged to the same victim.
—David Chiu, PEOPLE, 25 Dec. 2025
Even in a single hole of a mandible, there are up to six generations of bees coming back to that same single hole.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mandible
maxilla
Noun
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The jugal bone, or what could be called the cheekbone, and the maxilla, or jawbone, are fused, Bertozzo said.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
17 Sep. 2025
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The Cook County Sheriff’s Office decided to reopen the Gacy file in 2011 as a cold case, exhuming bone fragments and sending eight sets of mandibles and maxilla to the CHI lab in Fort Worth for DNA processing.—
David Montesino,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Jan. 2024
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“Mandible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mandible. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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