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tooth

[tooth] / tuθ /


NOUN
a toothlike or tooth-shaped object
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Stock up for Halloween or grab some whenever your sweet tooth is aching.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

That certainly seems to imply that the current bull market is getting long in the tooth.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

After more than a decade studying fungi, Large said the rarest species he had seen in the region was the coral tooth fungus.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Something like a million people vote in this event every year, according to the daytime news segment that I caught at the dentist the other afternoon while getting a tooth cleaning.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Christopher spat out the tooth into his hand and turned to Naravirala.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Suspended in a pool, holding onto an oxygen mask as her teeth chattered, Julia Wolf began to seriously consider the possibility of hypothermia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Investors who gritted their teeth and bought funds tracking a leading small cap value index made impressive gains, but not because they had identified some market turning point.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Researchers had found teeth from an ancient eel-like animal called a conodont preserved in the rock.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Blood samples are easier to profile, but those taken from teeth or bones can take several days to process.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Nine stuck his fist in his corn-yellow teeth, horrified.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

In a study published in Science Advances on Wednesday, researchers equipped six of the toothed whales, sometimes called "unicorns of the sea," with satellite transmitters, and had them explore remote East Greenland waters.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Those predators included anacondas, saber toothed mammals, flightless "terror birds" and sebecids, a group of land dwelling relatives of crocodylians.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

The inspectors also reported crews spraying contaminated pool water onto neighboring properties and into storm drains, and excavator operators using toothed buckets that caused clean and contaminated soil to be commingled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025

As the study authors explain, baleen whales and their toothed whale cousins could not survive with the larynxes from their land mammal ancestors.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2024

I didn't have a good answer to that, and instead toothed my bottom lip to keep it from quivering.

From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds

It frequently happens, that during Dentition, or the Time of their toothing, Children prove subject to Knots or Kernels.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

The strange feature in this case is the zig-zag "toothing" which is employed to represent the jaws.

From In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious by W.T. (William Thomas) Vincent

Broad surfaces of close-grained hardwood having a shiny surface are usually carefully roughened with a fine toothing plane blade previous to glueing.

From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by William Fairham

Then comes a softening process to prepare the files for the men who grind or file them to a true form, and for toothing.

From A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White

The depth of the toothing is 10 mm.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various




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