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Recent Examples of maws
Their lips, jaws, and the interior of their maws are—in terms of rigidity—akin to a ceramic dinner plate.
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Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
17 June 2026
Feeding black holes also usually emit copious ultraviolet radiation from the white-hot disks of material that pile up around their insatiable maws.
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Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
14 Jan. 2026
Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
17 June 2026
Feeding black holes also usually emit copious ultraviolet radiation from the white-hot disks of material that pile up around their insatiable maws.
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Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
14 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maws
Noun
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All those female mouths and caves!
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The sending off was the first of its kind after the International Football Association Board — the body which sets the rules of the game — changed its laws in April to include players covering their mouths in instances of confrontation being punishable with a red card.
Noun
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In his weirdest picture—the late, baroque, campy Allegory of Faith—a bug-eyed female figure is shown clutching her chest, one foot balanced perilously on a globe, while a snake gushing blood from its jaws gyrates in the foreground.
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The blockbuster trade that sent Ottawa Senators captain Brady Tkachuk to the Florida Panthers had dads everywhere dropping their jaws and grill tongs.
Noun
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This mix is a scrumptious way to get vegetables happily down the kid’s gullets.
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“Maws.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maws. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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