neck
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For everyone else they can turn into a pain in the neck, or worse.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
The possible structures appear within some scales, particularly around the neck, limbs, and along the sides of the trunk and tail.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Catherine sat down and chatted to those receiving treatment at the hospital on Friday, including patients with breast cancer, head and neck cancer and a brain tumour.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Dysport is a muscle relaxant that Ipsen markets for therapeutic indications such as a neck ailment called cervical dystonia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
I tried to act natural, though I could feel my neck and the back of my ears go hot.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
At the university, shelves groan with jagged pieces of spines, necks and legs that to an untrained eye resemble battered stones.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Even within the tenuous reality of the movie, Frankie and Molly aren’t focused on saving their own necks, especially after their clairvoyant powers kick in and the friends realize they can communicate with closed mouths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Fans craned their necks for any views they could get from the street.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
Long-sleeved tops with high necks protect a child's arms, back and shoulders.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
Gabi’s come over to hang out and work on our family trees, and I’m glad I can spend time with her without my parents breathing down our necks.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
By comparison, only one out of 55 eastern ribbon snakes and three out of 36 ring necked snakes tested positive.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
“Oh, he’s necked it,” Sir Nick Faldo accurately told American TV viewers.
From BBC ● May 13, 2024
Long necked animals, such as giraffes, need to pump blood upward from the heart against gravity.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Mike McNerney of Carbondale, Illinois, an authority on necked discoids, believes they are a corruption of the classic Celtic cross, with the ends of the cross being dropped from the design.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 1, 2015
The one who remained was in his seventies, but tall and bull necked and powerful.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
This dramatic difference points to a process known as "necking."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
"I can imagine the rubber necking that is going to happen."
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2023
Instead of dancing and necking and maybe even performing for the hippies in Haight-Ashbury, Elvis Presley had spent an endless seven years in Southern California, forsaking his music career for one on the silver screen.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2018
Basically middle-aged music nerds in plastic glasses necking $8 beers, with a few kids to spike the energy and enthusiasm.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2017
Who wouldn’t be appalled to find her brother and his girlfriend necking in her brand-new house, in the prize bathroom of all places?
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
