neck
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After a decade of playing it safe with “Mission: Impossible” and “Top Gun” sequels, this is what it looks like when Hollywood’s last classic movie star finally sticks out his neck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
That material may then travel to lymph nodes in the neck, where dendritic cells identify it and present it as a target for T cells.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
The 30-year-old curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario had been scrutinizing a portrait of a young Black woman bedecked in jewels and wearing a shimmering blue gown with pearls around her neck and wrists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Possible candidate names are swirling but no individual will stick out his or her neck in public until they know they have the backing of the party.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
The porcelain was cool on the back of my neck.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
The reactions to Dalporto’s March announcement on TikTok about the project varied, with one commenter suggesting interchangeable necks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
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
As necks lengthened over evolutionary time, the nerve was stretched rather than rerouted.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
A CT scan revealed that the dinosaur belonged to the Mamenchisauridae family of sauropod dinosaurs, characterised by their extremely long necks, which likely helped them reach vegetation at different heights.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Their hair was slicked back into tight buns that sat high upon their heads, the better to emphasize their extra-long necks.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Researchers have identified a gigantic new species of long necked dinosaur in Thailand that is now considered the largest dinosaur ever discovered in Southeast Asia.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2026
The dinosaurs included carnivorous megalosaurs - ancestors of Tyrannosaurus rex - and long necked herbivores that were up to three times bigger in size than an elephant.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2025
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
The Turkana Rift began opening about 45 million years ago, and researchers estimate that necking started after widespread volcanic eruptions around 4 million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
"I can imagine the rubber necking that is going to happen."
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2023
I reread The Plague last week, in between necking paracetamol and arguing on Twitter.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2020
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
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
