Thesaurus results for SKULLS

skulls 1 of 2

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

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 Yak skulls, tails and hair hang in a barn overseen by a furtive gray cat. — David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2026 Strewn around the edges of the room are ceramic casts of the pocked fruit, brown and desiccated like a pile of skulls. — Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026 While the princesses’ skulls had been lost, and some of the bones had not been preserved, the rest of the bones were in good condition. — ArsTechnica, 3 Aug. 2026 With the advent of breed standards and clubs in the early 1900s, an official criteria for a proper Lab, such as otter tails, water resistant coats and wide skulls, became more concrete. — Pat Mueller, USA Today, 24 July 2026 The most popular Swedish candies are already stocked – Kex chocolate, Daim chocolate caramel, Bilar fruity marshmallow race cars and Bubs fruity and sour gummy skulls. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2026 Retzius and others mistakenly believed that because human skulls were so diverse in shape and size that the different races had separate origins. — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2026 Meanwhile, remaining hides, skulls, and hoofs could be made into glue. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 20 July 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

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