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Recent Examples of skull
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
Other skulls and long bones uncovered at the site, which Carr says was among the most important in Miami-Dade, were destroyed by a gang of marauding boys.
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Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
30 June 2026
Daniel Rapaport,
SI.com,
13 June 2019
Someone took out a golf driver and skulled the top off of a full can of Bud Light and drank what was left.
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Byron McCauley,
Cincinnati.com,
26 Feb. 2018
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Noun
But when biomechanists actually modeled the skull of Smilodon fatalis, reconstructing its jaw muscles, its skull shape, the leverage its bite would have generated, the number that came back was almost embarrassing.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
Other skulls and long bones uncovered at the site, which Carr says was among the most important in Miami-Dade, were destroyed by a gang of marauding boys.
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Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
30 June 2026
Verb
And, most incredibly, not after skulling a bunker shot on the par-5 14th, then hacking out to 30 feet.
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Daniel Rapaport,
SI.com,
13 June 2019
Someone took out a golf driver and skulled the top off of a full can of Bud Light and drank what was left.
—
Byron McCauley,
Cincinnati.com,
26 Feb. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skull
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In the case of the female individual, the authors noted an unusual break at the base of the cranium that likely occurred near the time of death.
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Scratches inside her cranium point to the removal of her brain, while long bones like the humeri, femur, and ulna were carved down to sharp points.
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There were biscuits hard enough to brain a bear with.
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Retro Rewind is the kind of game that will keep your hands and brain minimally busy while listening to a podcast or watching some rerun on a background TV.
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Roupp helped his own cause by making a nifty play to turn two in the sixth, spearing a comebacker behind his back before firing to shortstop Willy Adames to kick-start a 1-6-3 double play.
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Jafaar al-Samra had just sold an octopus, minutes after spearing it while snorkeling.
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In the last meeting between these teams in early November, Bane beaned Okongwu in the head with the ball after flagrantly fouling him and was ejected from the game.
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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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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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Both failed to fire, and the hero of the Battle of New Orleans, with a hair-trigger temper, began caning the would-be assassin.
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An adventure in the Philippines where the mangosteens conk you.
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The suave Hernández character Domingo appeared briefly but was conked on the noggin by White, who also achieved Five-Timers status, but as a musical guest.
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Teoscar Hernandez clubbed the next pitch from Morejon, a slider down but out over the plate, 419 feet to center field for a grand slam and a 4-3 lead.
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In the seventh inning Friday at American Family Field, the Milwaukee Brewers catcher clubbed a 1-2 pitch from Chicago Cubs reliever Jayden Murray that sailed 449 feet to left-center field.
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“Skull.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skull. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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