tooth
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Agnew mailed Merriam a single tooth, but the bearskin had already been sent to someone in Korea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Some investors are worried that this artificial-intelligence-powered bull market might be getting a little long in the tooth as it approaches its fourth birthday.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
“We should be fighting tooth and nail to retain all of our companies,” Walker said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
"The study of tooth marks on fossil bones is important because it provides valuable insights into animal behavior and interactions between species."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
Mom bent down to show Chicken the tooth.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
Like Indiana’s Curt Cignetti, he cut his teeth in football’s smaller conferences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
"His eyes are all wrong, his teeth are wrong, it just don't look like Ronnie. It looks like somebody who's got a skeletal face."
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Did you enjoy that or grit your teeth through it?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Curry made him a Bozo hiding sharp teeth, which was terrifying but not alluring in the least.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
“Dagnab it, I forgot matches,” Charlie said with the buggy whip already between his teeth.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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
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
Scientists at Hokkaido University determined DNA sequences of genes which were expressed in acoustic fat bodies -- collections of fat around the head that toothed whales use for echolocation.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024
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
If the cause can be detected, as in toothing or worms, it should be removed.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
The depth of the toothing is 10 mm.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various
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 second year included rowlock and bonded segmental arches; blocking, toothing, and corbeling; building and bonding of vaulted walls; polygonal and circular walls, piers and chimneys; fire-places and flues.
From One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America by William Carleton
So in toothing, fits of convulsion with stupor frequently occur, and cease when the tooth advances; but this is not to be expected in advanced life.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
