neck
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Belgal remains in isolation at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn with a bullet still lodged in his neck, according to his lawyers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The species was named Vasuki indicus in honor of Vasuki, the mythical serpent associated with the Hindu deity Shiva, who is traditionally depicted with the snake wrapped around his neck.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Bigmore said he has seen an increase in patients coming to him with head and neck cancer, with patients having their whole nose removed or their eye taken out.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Smith was on the injured list for 86 days this summer because of neck disk inflammation, returning for the final month when he slashed .290/.400/.548.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
He grabbed that snake by the neck and yanked it out of the desk.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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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
“They had these big bells around their necks and were dressed up in a way that made them look very regal and a bit ferocious.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
As necks lengthened over evolutionary time, the nerve was stretched rather than rerouted.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
They listen carefully, crane their necks to see, take notes while I blush.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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Sauropods were long necked, long tailed plant eaters that grew into the largest animals ever to walk on land, yet their earliest life stages were small, exposed, and highly vulnerable.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 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
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Because the Turkana Rift is the first known active continental rift currently undergoing necking, it offers scientists a rare chance to study this crucial stage of tectonic evolution.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
Daniel juggles two simultaneous dinner dates in a restaurant while dressed as both himself and Mrs Doubtfire, running between two tables and necking cocktails.
From The Guardian ● May 13, 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
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
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