snout
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As September drew to an end, she hadn't been seen feeding for days and was spotted with bloody abrasions on her snout from bumping into the concrete walls.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
The viper, which has two hornlike projections on its snout, feeds mainly on rodents and ground-dwelling birds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Now Nasa is working around that problem using the X-59's elongated snout to flatten supersonic booms into tolerable bumps in the background.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Hesperosuchus had a longer, narrower snout, while Eosphorosuchus had a shorter and more heavily reinforced skull with stronger jaw muscles.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
A tail poked out of one end, and the other end grew ears and a pointy little snout and made a tiny squeak.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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In this alternate universe, beautiful people have pig snouts, distorted mouths, and sagging cheeks.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
But that shows how keen they are to get their snouts in the trough of Musk’s future equity sales.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
The malleability of the dog genome allows for enormous physical variety, she explained, meaning that breeders can push features to extremes—squashing snouts, piling on wrinkles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Instead, they swim sideways, spend much of their time underwater, have long snouts and are almost completely blind.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2025
The rats opened their snouts and clacked their yellow teeth at her.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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