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noun

ˈskəl

as in cranium

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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as in to brain

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Noun

At the top of the pile was a rock that appeared to be a cast of a skull’s interior. —

Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025 This latest finding was based on a dataset of giraffe skulls from museum collections, wild populations, and taxidermy sources across Africa that is the largest of its kind. —

Grrlscientist, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025

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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 See all Example Sentences for skull

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That's where Joseph Keil found a skeleton in a sarcophagus filled with water, but for some reason, Keil only removed the cranium from the tomb before sealing it back up.

— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2025
This indicates that the bones were gathered over multiple generations—perhaps six to eight—before being placed in the heap at the possible rate, on average, of one cranium every decade or so.

— Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025