mouth
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Symptoms include a high fever, tiny white spots in the mouth and a rash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
And it was a little bit more word of mouth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
"We look through the garbage so we can eat without stealing or hurting anyone," said Manuel Sanchez Angeira, 50, who has mouth cancer.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
It was an already-poorly lamb, which Fiona said had not shown typical symptoms - it had been drooling, dropping food from its mouth and its legs were stiff, but not lame.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
She nods and wipes sauce from the corner of her mouth with her thumb.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Dew gathers on their skin and is channelled towards their mouths through microscopic grooves, while their tongues can also collect fog water condensed on plants, sand and rocks.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
People become infected by breathing in the contaminated air or touching the infected surface and then touching their eyes, noses or mouths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
You refresh a feed for news of a village whose name your relatives say with their whole mouths and you say with an accent that gives you away.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Those who did experiment ran into the technology's early limitations -- six-fingered hands, mouths that didn't move right.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
I turn back and several kids’ mouths are hanging open at what just went down.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
When Trump praised Rubio during his State of the Union, the secretary mouthed “thank you,” placed a hand on his heart, and briefly stood to acknowledge the applause before ducking back into his seat.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
In a second phase of the study, the researchers simulated how the body might process lead if children mouthed or chewed on clothing.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2026
"A striking aspect of all of Kundanlal's elaborate scheming on behalf of these families was how close mouthed he remained, keeping up appearances of technology transfer to India until the very end," Gupta writes.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
On a bench across from the doors, two immigration agents nodded at each other and one mouthed, “Let’s go.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025
But she just gave me a shy smile and mouthed the words “thank you.”
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
The cameras then panned to reality TV star Jenner, who made her name on the show Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and she was seen mouthing "I love you" back.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026
But this year it was disclosed she sent an email to Epstein weeks later apologizing for bad mouthing him and referring to him as her “supreme friend.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
"Oh no," he added, before silently mouthing the word into the microphone.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2024
Today, that means he is dancing in a suit and mouthing the lyrics “I pay attention to things that most people ignore,” a line from a song by pop star Olivia Rodrigo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
By the tenth viewing, I was mouthing the words along with the actors.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
