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skull

noun as in brain

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Someone had called deputies about their dog finding a human skull, McClendon said.

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The court was told 11 of the 23 stab wounds penetrated her skull, one of which damaged the brain stem, causing her death.

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In reaction to one lockdown announcement, he allegedly posted: "It's pure evil. And we'd better get ready to smash skulls and destroy evil."

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It wasn’t the mayhem of mass casualty events that shook her, nor the sound of shallow breaths as a patient who had been shot in the skull slipped toward death.

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"But it did creep into a job styling some cereal boxes. There was a Rice Krispy that looked like a skull. I thought: 'Come on, stop seeing skulls everywhere'."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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