socket
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Featuring illuminated eyes in the film, and with original wiring in the right socket, this particular C-3PO head boasts several unique features including a forehead antenna.
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 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
He needed to get it onto a two-foot-long metal rod called a socket extension.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026
The 38-year-old, who works as a train driver, says he had his work and life upended by the cholesterol granuloma between his brain and eye socket, and still deals with the aftermath two years later.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2025
I stare at Einstein’s picture with his crazy white hair that looks like he had an accident with a light socket.
From "Fish in a Tree" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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