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
She strongly recommends electronics are switched off at the wall socket every night before the last person in the house goes to bed.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025
He doubles the sleeve back over the socket, then holds the leg out for me.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
