socket
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Featuring illuminated eyes in the film, and with original wiring in the right socket, this particular C-3PO head boasts several unique features including a forehead antenna.
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
Preserved in nearly perfect three-dimensional detail, the skeleton includes a skull with a huge eye socket and an elongated, sword-like snout.
From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 2026
The illuminated door lever pops out of its socket and a puddle light projects the Cadillac crest at your feet.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026
It turned out the tumour between his eye socket and brain was a cholesterol granuloma, which is a type of benign cyst.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2025
“Now for the liner,” he says, and pulls a white foamy-looking thing out of the socket of my fake leg.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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