socket
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Det Ch Insp Mel Sutherland said forensic anthropologist Dr Micol Zuppello worked for several days to "painstakingly extract the body", with all but the tip of a toe and some small eye socket bones recovered.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
It operates from a regular power socket, can be wheeled around and doesn't use much power, according to its maker.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Instead, she stands up, pops her dislocated shoulder back into its socket and grimly declares to the shocked classmate filming her, “This is Claire Bennet, and that was attempt No. 6.”
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
Preserved in nearly perfect three-dimensional detail, the skeleton includes a skull with a huge eye socket and an elongated, sword-like snout.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 24, 2026
Two metal strips ran from the bottom of the socket all the way down to a circular lump of metal about an inch and a half thick that rested on the ground.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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He said they were clustering in large numbers and emerging from places including fridge seals, plug sockets, toasters and microwaves, adding: "It was like something out of a Stephen King film."
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The scans produced detailed three dimensional images of the compacted material inside the tooth sockets without damaging either the fossils or the sediment.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
Next she cleaned my face, applied massage cream and gently massaged my face and eye area, manipulating the outer corners of my eye sockets as well as under my brow bones and on my temples.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026
The single set of temporal fascia—indentations behind the eye sockets that are doubled on a reptile—is one means of scientific definition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
On the ground I felt as if my eyes were growing too big for their sockets.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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They kept digging and found a hoard of other artifacts, including socketed ax heads, winged ax heads, cake ingots and blade fragments made of bronze.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
In the Positano brochures, they tell you about the view: the impossible blue of the sea, the colorful buildings socketed like Legos into the craggy hillside, the narrow alleyways of shops and restaurants.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2019
Did it require special equipment, perhaps a rope woven around short lengths of bamboo that could be covertly socketed together?
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2018
Shoulder-straps and a socketed belt are provided to let the fisherman put his back into his fight with the fish.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The manner of hafting the socketed celts is well shown by a handled socketed celt found at Edenderry, King’s Co., and formerly in the Murray collection.
From The Bronze Age in Ireland by George Coffey
Tom Kettering returned at the appointed time, to a minute, and took no notice of his own arrival beyond socketing his whip in its stall, in token of its abdication.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
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