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Recent Examples of skull
Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 31 Oct. 2024
Reuters also reports, citing the skull's analysis, that Zosia may have had a health condition involving fainting and severe headaches, and may have also had mental health issues.
—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 13 June 2019
The ball was sitting on such tight grass that he easily could have chunked or skulled it.
—Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 17 June 2019
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Noun
Wendy Goodman The skull on the shelf: Booth was given the skull by his father, Junius, also an actor, who at one time shared a jail cell with a horse thief who was hanged.
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 31 Oct. 2024
Reuters also reports, citing the skull's analysis, that Zosia may have had a health condition involving fainting and severe headaches, and may have also had mental health issues.
—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Verb
And, most incredibly, not after skulling a bunker shot on the par-5 14th, then hacking out to 30 feet.
—Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 13 June 2019
The ball was sitting on such tight grass that he easily could have chunked or skulled it.
—Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 17 June 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skull
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In 1985 researchers working in northern Kenya discovered a 2.5-million-year-old cranium of the robust australopith Paranthropus aethiopicus.Donald C. Johanson, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
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Woody Harrelson plays the McCain strategist/bouncer Steve Schmidt, all shoulders and gleaming cranium; Ed Harris plays a rambunctious, foulmouthed, wide-eyed McCain; and Julianne Moore, from a place of truly Strasbergian inwardness, plays Palin.James Parker, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2024
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Space snake brains Joysticking EELS around on Enceladus was out of the question due to the huge communication lag, so the team went for nearly complete autonomy.Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2024
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The new set of donors, by contrast, come from the first category and are not brain dead.Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
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The allegations detailed serious safety and security issues at the jail, including charges after two inmates were stabbed to death and another was speared in the spine with a makeshift icepick.Michael Balsamo, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2024
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Another surfer last December who was also surfing off an Indonesian island was speared in the armpit by a needle fish, and suffered a punctured lung but survived, the publication Surfer reported.Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
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Many get beaned by water balloon-wielding children.Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 24 July 2024
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Pete Alonso hit a one-out double and Muñoz (1-5) loaded the bases by beaning Mark Vientos and walking DJ Stewart.Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 20 July 2024
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Prune the second-year, woody canes off summer-bearing raspberries once a year after the plants fruit.Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 July 2024
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In the nearly 250 years since its founding, the United States has witnessed its fair share of political violence, from four presidential assassinations to an 1856 caning on the Senate floor to a 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol that left at least five dead.Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2024
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River was saved, in a sense, by getting conked in the back of his head, which took him away from the clutches of Hugo Weaving’s Frank Harkness and into the clutches of Natasha (Coralie Audret), who’s anxious to know what brought him into town.Scott Tobias, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2024
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According to rumors, a blazing row on the terrace of their hotel – the San Domenico Palace – ended when Taylor conked Burton on the head with a mandolin.John Bleasdale, Variety, 18 June 2023
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Noel yells at them to leave, starting a row that ends with Noel clubbing his younger brother on the head with a cricket bat.Matthew Ismael Ruiz, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
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Earnings beat, clubbed with a good outlook and a share repurchase program, helped UAL stock soar over 15% post its results announcement.Trefis Team, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Skull.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skull. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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