neck
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Researchers have developed a bioengineered chewing gum that may offer a new way to target microbes associated with head and neck cancer.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Yet today government paperwork is an ever-weightier millstone around the public’s neck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Hamilton, 41, is rejuvenated this year - back to something close to his best - and the battle with team-mate Charles Leclerc - pretty much entirely one-sided in 2025 - is neck and neck.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
The Dodgers’ catching depth, with Will Smith still sidelined with a lingering neck injury, is the most obvious roster soft spot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
‘And I’ve got a crick in my neck.’
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Around Easter, Lindt is known for its chocolate rabbits wrapped in gold-coloured foil and decorated with a red ribbon and bell on their necks.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Fans craned their necks for any views they could get from the street.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
Stegosaurs were plant-eating dinosaurs that walked on four legs and are best known for the rows of plates and spikes running from their necks to their tails.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026
On the first, priests tie a sacred thread around the necks of the transgender devotees, symbolising their marriage to the Hindu warrior god Aravan.
From Barron's ● May 3, 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
“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
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
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
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
