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Recent Examples of mandible
Thanks to Stan Winston’s extraordinary design and the need for endlessly franchised creature features, the interstellar intruder with the mandibles and dreadlocks kept coming back to Earth, hunting everyone from 18th century Native American tribes to future-shocked L.A. cops.
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2025
One body was found with a wild boar mandible placed on its chest.
—Literary Hub, 31 Oct. 2025
That calls for a little extra creativity from its mom — and the movie’s narrator (Emilia Clarke) — who wriggles her mandibles and gets to work embellishing upon what Dahl imagined.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
Similar to a mouthguard, a MAD holds the lower jaw (mandible) and tongue forward, keeping the airway open.
—New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2025
One body was found with a wild boar mandible placed on its chest.
—Literary Hub, 31 Oct. 2025
That calls for a little extra creativity from its mom — and the movie’s narrator (Emilia Clarke) — who wriggles her mandibles and gets to work embellishing upon what Dahl imagined.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
Similar to a mouthguard, a MAD holds the lower jaw (mandible) and tongue forward, keeping the airway open.
—New Atlas, 13 Oct. 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 30 Jan. 2026.
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