Definition of nebnext
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as in mouth
the jaws of a bird together with their hornlike covering the cardinal has a black face and a noticeable bright red neb

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as in nose
the part of the face bearing the nostrils and nasal cavity with her round glasses perched on her small neb, the librarian certainly presents an owlish appearance

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Noun
  • Cellphone video shows a staff member with a bloodied mouth climbing into the back of an ambulance.
    Elle McLogan, CBS News, 22 June 2026
  • Gleaning from context clues, French fries is season 8’s code for hand and/or mouth stuff.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • Almeraq, ridden by Tom Marquand, defeated Japan’s Satono Reve by a nose in the Group 1 sprint.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 20 June 2026
  • The 200-foot-long geoglyph looks like a fish carved into the desert floor, its nose pointed toward the Sea of Cortez.
    Geraldo L. Cadava, The Atlantic, 20 June 2026
Noun
  • Both are drawn from Spanish auteurist designer Jaime Hayon’s arresting sense of design – a protagonist with a beak nose, shiny colors, an avoidance of sharp angles – which recreates over a century of Spanish design and architecture.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 18 June 2026
  • Since a hummingbird will only access the feeder spout with its long beak, any food residue anywhere else on the feeder could be an invitation to ants or other insects.
    Peg Aloi, The Spruce, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • With those personal details out of the way, the app asks the user to identify the dog’s breed, snout description, and coat type (single, double, or hairless), as well as what her typical daily activity looks like.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 18 June 2026
  • According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the spectacled caiman resembles a crocodile but typically has a shorter, broader snout.
    Sergio Candido, CBS News, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • That same year, DNA analysis revealed that a tooth recovered from a mandible at one of the relevant archaeological sites was that of Captain James Fitzjames of the HMS Erebus.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026
  • By March, crews found the mandible of an adult man, followed within days by the ribs of a young adult.
    Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • As a hedge, the bar put $5,000 on the Knicks winning, which netted the bar $8,000, nearly covering the bar bill.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 21 June 2026
  • If the plant moves forward to the construction stage, the expenditures will not be recovered through local electric utility customer rates or consumer bills.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 21 June 2026
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“Neb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neb. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.

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