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snout

[snaut] / snaʊt /


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As September drew to an end, she hadn't been seen feeding for days and was spotted with bloody abrasions on her snout from bumping into the concrete walls.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

The viper, which has two hornlike projections on its snout, feeds mainly on rodents and ground-dwelling birds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Now Nasa is working around that problem using the X-59's elongated snout to flatten supersonic booms into tolerable bumps in the background.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The species also had a snout that extended farther beyond its nostrils than those of other crocodiles living at the time.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 13, 2026

He rubbed his nose against the rottie's tiny black snout.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

In this alternate universe, beautiful people have pig snouts, distorted mouths, and sagging cheeks.

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026

They have thick gray bodies, small heads and short, rounded snouts.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

But that shows how keen they are to get their snouts in the trough of Musk’s future equity sales.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026

The malleability of the dog genome allows for enormous physical variety, she explained, meaning that breeders can push features to extremes—squashing snouts, piling on wrinkles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

If anyone even looked at them, they threw themselves against the sides of their cage and stuck their scabby snouts out as far as they could and clacked their long yellow teeth together.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt


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