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Recent Examples of maws
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
Lee Billings, Scientific American, 14 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maws
Noun
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Even if there was no wrongdoing, that will leave a bad taste in people's mouths.—
Lauryn Overhultz , Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
3 Feb. 2026
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This recipe has more ingredients than that, but like any good casserole recipe, it’s made mostly of affordable pantry staples and can feed a lot of mouths without racking up the grocery bill.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
1 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Our comparatively small jaws opened the floodgates to all sorts of other issues, Ungar adds, including the sleep apnea epidemic, which occurs when our tongues don’t have enough room to wiggle around in our mouths.—
Sara Kiley Watson,
Popular Science,
4 Feb. 2026
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Its gift shop and offices are destroyed and the trademark jaws entrance is damaged (and later restored).—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
31 Jan. 2026
Noun
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This mix is a scrumptious way to get vegetables happily down the kid’s gullets.—
Cathy Thomas,
Oc Register,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Maws.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maws. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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