Thesaurus results for SKULLS

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noun

plural of skull

as in craniums

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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skulls

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verb

present tense third-person singular of skull

as in brains

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Recent Examples of skulls

Noun

Spears and a club The team found a pointed stick and two spears lying close to the antlered skulls of red deer. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 9 Oct. 2026 Colorfully decorated as bones, pumpkins, cauldrons, skulls, and owls, these treats are like specialty canine cookies. — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2026 At trial, prosecutors laid out evidence to show how the dimensions of the hatchet matched the dimensions of the injuries on Andrew and Abby’s skulls, per CBS News. — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026 Naturally, the privilege of drilling your marketing messages into the skulls of TV’s last great mass audience comes at a price. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 9 Sep. 2026 Earlier this year, the University of Edinburgh returned the skulls of six people from the Muscogee Nation in the United States. — CBS News, 7 Sep. 2026 The Ku Klux Klan is everywhere, especially in law enforcement, and that means Scarpa's got to crack some skulls, no warrant, no problem. — ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026 At the very least, these defensive tackles are willing to crack skulls. — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2026 All the while the fMRI churned on, peering through the dogs’ skulls into the brain below and looking for the areas that lit up as a result of the visual stimuli. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 10 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for skulls

Noun

The other two craniums were found in 1990.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Dec. 2025
Of course, something similar typified our evolution, too, which can all too easily be cast as the blossoming forth of ever-plumper craniums.

— Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025

Definition of craniums

Noun

Looking through small microscopes implanted in the mice’s heads, Patel’s team zoomed in on a particular subset of brain cells, called somatostatin neurons, as the animals reacted to the fox urine scent.

— Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
Zavodovski is home to both chinstraps and macaroni penguins, which have distinctive yellow feather plumes on their heads.

— Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of heads

Verb

That advantage was in large part offset by payments from UEFA’s ‘value pillar’, a mechanism which awards clubs money based upon their coefficient ranking (determined by past performance in European competition) and the size of their nation’s broadcast rights deal for the competition.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 30 May 2026
Their top-30 visits, where NFL clubs host prospects at their facilities to gather further intel, are often smokescreens.

— Luca Evans, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026