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maw

[maw] / mɔ /
NOUN
mouth
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Some ingredients commonly found in Chinese fine dining include qi-boosting gelatinous fish maw, collagen-rich bird’s nest and nutrient-dense sea cucumber.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2025

Nothing has come from months of sending my applications into the gaping maw of a broken ATS.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025

Even the movies aren’t really movies anymore, just raw material for the streaming maw.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025

If this much solar mass in a young universe was annually being forever lost into the gaping maw of a black hole, it would be less unusual.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2024

He was working on the big steel-cutting maw of a continuous mining machine.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam


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