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cheek by jowl



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Staff and residents sat cheek by jowl chatting to each other.

From BBC • Jun. 29, 2025

Ruoff’s team has already used it to make diamond films composed of thousands of tiny crystals packed cheek by jowl.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 24, 2024

And instead of being crammed cheek by jowl in the press section, reporters, along with the justices’ law clerks, are spaced throughout the otherwise-empty chamber.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2022

More than 22,000 people have tested positive inside jails, where inmates living cheek by jowl have been encouraged to keep wearing their masks even while they sleep.

From The Guardian • May 29, 2021

La Salle passed through the area where De Soto had found cities cheek by jowl.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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