neck
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It has the smallest neck and back crest scales yet documented in the genus, as well as a generally small body size.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
After a game against the Colorado Rockies last week, he complained of a neck problem and was placed on the injured list.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
“I’m mindful of my capabilities and I’m still, from the neck up, pretty good,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026
The other Phase 3 volrustomig trials will continue as planned in cervical cancer, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and mesothelioma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and made me shiver.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
They wore fliers around their necks, hung with yellow thread, bearing the smiling faces and names of some of the 75 people who have died since January 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Fans craned their necks for any views they could get from the street.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
Long-sleeved tops with high necks protect a child's arms, back and shoulders.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
Stegosaurs were plant-eating dinosaurs that walked on four legs and are best known for the rows of plates and spikes running from their necks to their tails.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026
There were a few boys from his school leaning over a metal fence and straining their necks.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
By comparison, only one out of 55 eastern ribbon snakes and three out of 36 ring necked snakes tested positive.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
Long necked animals, such as giraffes, need to pump blood upward from the heart against gravity.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Mike McNerney of Carbondale, Illinois, an authority on necked discoids, believes they are a corruption of the classic Celtic cross, with the ends of the cross being dropped from the design.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 1, 2015
Most descriptions of encounters lend themselves to either the theory of a multi-humped sea serpent or the plesiosaur, a long necked dinosaur from the early Jurassic period.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2012
Mrs. Byrne says, and I realize that she is talking about my necklace, which is usually hidden by my high- necked dresses.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
After widespread volcanic activity about 4 million years ago, the onset of necking caused the land in the rift to sink.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
"I can imagine the rubber necking that is going to happen."
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2023
Instead of dancing and necking and maybe even performing for the hippies in Haight-Ashbury, Elvis Presley had spent an endless seven years in Southern California, forsaking his music career for one on the silver screen.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2018
Basically middle-aged music nerds in plastic glasses necking $8 beers, with a few kids to spike the energy and enthusiasm.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2017
Who wouldn’t be appalled to find her brother and his girlfriend necking in her brand-new house, in the prize bathroom of all places?
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
