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neck

[nek] / nɛk /
NOUN
narrow connector
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Polls show the candidates mostly neck and neck.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Polls suggest the two candidates are neck and neck and the televised debate was hailed as a chance for both to sway undecided voters.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

And when his biceps injury flared again, and the discomfort extended up through his neck, the Dodgers put off an IL move as long as possible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

I recalled how Ma had styled my hair in that faux bob, how the air had grazed my neck.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Some hopped on benches craning their necks for a better view while others FaceTimed friends so they could watch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 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

Maybe superheroes just tied their blankies around their necks so they’d have a little bit of comfort wherever they went.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

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

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

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

"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


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