tooth
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The evidence comes from bite and tooth marks left on the fossilized remains of herbivores.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Agnew mailed Merriam a single tooth, but the bearskin had already been sent to someone in Korea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Some investors are worried that this artificial-intelligence-powered bull market might be getting a little long in the tooth as it approaches its fourth birthday.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
I didn’t lose my sweet tooth, nor did I turn away from carbonation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
He held up a shark tooth that had to be three inches long.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
Portraying a calm presence in the teeth of such enormous publicity is one of his key attributes.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Those with 20 or fewer teeth had a median survival of 39.1 months.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
“And when he looked, he saw the teeth and everything.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
He cut his campaigning teeth in the 1960s, joining protests against harsh homelessness laws that split up families and getting involved in the squatting movement.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
You put out the snow anchor, but the sled races on while you grit your teeth.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
The inspectors also reported crews spraying contaminated pool water onto neighboring properties and into storm drains, and excavator operators using toothed buckets that caused clean and contaminated soil to be commingled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025
During opening weekend on March 16, the museum was a hive of freckles and gap toothed grins, with visitors ranging in age from newborn to well seasoned.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
As the study authors explain, baleen whales and their toothed whale cousins could not survive with the larynxes from their land mammal ancestors.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2024
The way so-called toothed whales produce sound is better understood, because the animals are easier to study.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2024
His projects conduct electricity, engage motion with toothed wheels, react in concert with universal laws of physics.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
It frequently happens, that during Dentition, or the Time of their toothing, Children prove subject to Knots or Kernels.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
So in toothing, fits of convulsion with stupor frequently occur, and cease when the tooth advances; but this is not to be expected in advanced life.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
The depth of the toothing is 18 mm.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various
Then comes a softening process to prepare the files for the men who grind or file them to a true form, and for toothing.
From A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White
The depth of the toothing is 10 mm.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various
