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Recent Examples of maw
There was a pterosaur found preserved in its stomach and there were iguanodon remains found in the maw of a Baryonyx, another large carnivore belonging to the same lineage as the Spinosaurus.
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Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 8 Aug. 2025
Bushels of shrimp and what seemed like barrels of seawater and half-digested food spewed up from the maw of the shark.
—Donald Millus, Outdoor Life, 3 July 2025
The internet is a hungry maw that can never be fully satiated.
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
On the other side of the baby-shower divide, Demi, Jessi, Mikayla, and Layla sit outside and catch shrimps in their gaping maws.
—Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 17 May 2025
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Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 8 Aug. 2025
Bushels of shrimp and what seemed like barrels of seawater and half-digested food spewed up from the maw of the shark.
—Donald Millus, Outdoor Life, 3 July 2025
The internet is a hungry maw that can never be fully satiated.
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
On the other side of the baby-shower divide, Demi, Jessi, Mikayla, and Layla sit outside and catch shrimps in their gaping maws.
—Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 17 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for maw
Noun
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Charlamagne is the mouth, Dollie is the muscle — the one who makes sure ideas turn into institutions.—
Jessica Bennett,
VIBE.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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The picture shows the poster holding the feline’s mouth open with their hands to get a clear shot of his gums, which, in the clip, appear covered in small brown spots, both on the upper and lower parts.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Through much trial and error, Flores was able to teach himself how to program the skeletons to move their jaws and heads in time with prerecorded dialogue or songs of his choosing.—
Endia Fontanez,
AZCentral.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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The vipers closed their jaws to inject the venom only when their fangs were comfortably in place.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Cut away lungs, reaching up into the neck as far as possible to sever gullet and windpipe.—
Maurice H. Decker,
Outdoor Life,
17 Sep. 2025
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What excites me, after a decade and change of writing virtually the same review for every superhero film that was shoved down our gullets, is my suspicion that these movies will at least have the potential to suck in different and sometimes wildly unexpected ways.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Maw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maw. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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