the case of bone that encloses the brain and supports the jaws of vertebrates
paleoanthropologists recently found the skull of a prehistoric man in a remote area of the desert
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Noun
The ball was sitting on such tight grass that he easily could have chunked or skulled it.—Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 17 June 2019 This leaves one big question: Why were people drilling into one another’s skulls 5,000 years ago in the first place?—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2018
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What the press release didn’t say was that other than personal effects, the only actual biological evidence Erika and Zach recovered at the site was a right temporal lobe skull fragment about the size of a walnut, just one of 206 bones in the human body.—Ted Katauskas, Outside, 23 Sep. 2025 Elastic cables replace the spongy bone layer, and carbon fiber plates connected with plastic brackets act as the skull.—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for skull
At one point, a character is forced to stand in front of an automatic football launcher and take a series of pigskins to the cranium, each of which is shot at him with increasing speed.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
19 Sep. 2025
Zavacephale’s cranium had a few noteworthy quirks, however.
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Jack Tamisiea,
Scientific American,
17 Sep. 2025
Detmers came in to face the top of the order and beaned Brandon Nimmo to load the bases for Francisco Lindor, who beat out a double play to score Alvarez, and stole second to put runners on second and third.
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Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
22 July 2025
Suárez fell behind 3-0 in the count to Ohtani, and on the next pitch, Suárez beaned Ohtani with a 100 mph fastball to the right shoulder.
Visuals also showed some people receiving CPR. Uncontrollable crowd
Police started caning people at one gate, leading to more chaos, said Mithun Singh, a software engineer among the crowd.
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USA Today,
USA Today,
5 June 2025
Both failed to fire, and the hero of the Battle of New Orleans, with a hair-trigger temper, began caning the would-be assassin.
Then — and this is important — she gets conked on the head and wakes up in an entirely different movie.
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Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
4 June 2025
Could there be any truth to the fan theory that Greg was hiding on the boat when Tanya killed Quentin and his minions, then fatally conked herself in the head while escaping?
The Western world is experiencing something of a psychedelic renaissance, with an increasing amount of interest in drugs that decades ago were considered rebellious and dangerous to some groups but fun to others who used it while clubbing and attending raves.
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Soph Warnes,
CNN Money,
28 Sep. 2025
Francisco Lindor clubbed Alcantara’s second pitch 392 feet to right center for his 31st homer of the season and Pete Alonso added an RBI double.
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