neck
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Older adults are also more likely to suffer fractures, while younger children are more likely to sustain head and neck injuries.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Recently, mine was manifested in neck and shoulder pain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Every participant underwent advanced imaging designed to identify plaque in three major areas: the carotid arteries in the neck, the femoral arteries in the legs and the coronary arteries supplying the heart.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
After a decade of playing it safe with “Mission: Impossible” and “Top Gun” sequels, this is what it looks like when Hollywood’s last classic movie star finally sticks out his neck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
My blood scrambles into a mess and heat rises up the back of my neck, making my scalp prickle.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Shortly after, at a small neighborhood restaurant I raced down a 30 mph road to get to, nearly every patron craned their necks to look.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
At the university, shelves groan with jagged pieces of spines, necks and legs that to an untrained eye resemble battered stones.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
“They had these big bells around their necks and were dressed up in a way that made them look very regal and a bit ferocious.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
All are four-legged plant eaters, with very long necks that helped them reach up into trees and long counter-balancing tails.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
People stood in the hallway, craning their necks to watch the proceedings going on inside.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
Sauropods were long necked, long tailed plant eaters that grew into the largest animals ever to walk on land, yet their earliest life stages were small, exposed, and highly vulnerable.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 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
I've just necked my ham rolls and apple.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2010
The one who remained was in his seventies, but tall and bull necked and powerful.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
This dramatic difference points to a process known as "necking."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
"I can imagine the rubber necking that is going to happen."
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2023
Daniel juggles two simultaneous dinner dates in a restaurant while dressed as both himself and Mrs Doubtfire, running between two tables and necking cocktails.
From The Guardian ● May 13, 2020
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
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
