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Recent Examples of skull
Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 8 Jan. 2026
Her skull was pulled off and turned sideways, boulders were piled atop her, and a mortar floor covered the grave she was returned to, leaving no indication of what lay below.
—Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026
Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 17 June 2019
This leaves one big question: Why were people drilling into one another’s skulls 5,000 years ago in the first place?
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2018
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Noun
His whole skull exploded into blood right in front of me.
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The ball was sitting on such tight grass that he easily could have chunked or skulled it.
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But with only a partial cranium, there wasn’t much to go on.—
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The other two craniums were found in 1990.—
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Koffman said people who carry risk factors for cognitive decline or who are particularly concerned about their brain health should speak with their primary care doctors, who can refer them to brain health specialists, like a neurologist.—
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The data came from the Human Connectome Project, an existing database that studies brain connectivity.—
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Vecna gets speared, the monster goes down, the creepy heart stops beating and everyone's alive!—
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The knife remains in the dominant hand, poised to cut when necessary or push food that can’t be speared atop the fork’s overturned tines.—
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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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Suárez fell behind 3-0 in the count to Ohtani, and on the next pitch, Suárez beaned Ohtani with a 100 mph fastball to the right shoulder.—
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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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Then — and this is important — she gets conked on the head and wakes up in an entirely different movie.—
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Could there be any truth to the fan theory that Greg was hiding on the boat when Tanya killed Quentin and his minions, then fatally conked herself in the head while escaping?—
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Shane Stant clubs Kerrigan on the knee and flees the scene.—
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Now welcome to that big britches club the strappy and sweaty table tennis player Marty Mauser (portrayed to the 10s by Timothée Chalamet).—
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“Skull.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skull. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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