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 skull has an enormous eye socket and a long sword-like snout that it used to eat fish and squid.
From BBC • Oct. 9, 2025
The greyhound lay on its side, drowsing, one chestnut-colored eye only partly closed and rolling grotesquely in the socket.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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