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Instead, she stands up, pops her dislocated shoulder back into its socket and grimly declares to the shocked classmate filming her, “This is Claire Bennet, and that was attempt No. 6.”

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

Guehi also missed Palace's celebrations last season as he spent the night in hospital after suffering a fractured eye socket in the match and, incredibly, it seems like he might miss out this time too.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

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 pipe is about eight inches long and an inch and a half in diameter, with two metal connectors—one down by the foot, and one up where the pipe attaches to the socket.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

"By applying the insecticides, that's when they started falling out of conduit pipes, literally coming out of plug sockets, out of the toasters, out of the back of microwave ovens," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

According to a new study published in Royal Society Open Science, ancient bees used the empty tooth sockets in the fossilized jaws as tiny nests for their offspring.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

Encord replicated a real data center server rack, where an operator inserts blue cables into penny-sized sockets all day.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026

The single set of temporal fascia—indentations behind the eye sockets that are doubled on a reptile—is one means of scientific definition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

Major Danby protested, his bulging eyes straining in their sockets with tortured awe and exasperation.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

They kept digging and found a hoard of other artifacts, including socketed ax heads, winged ax heads, cake ingots and blade fragments made of bronze.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

In the Positano brochures, they tell you about the view: the impossible blue of the sea, the colorful buildings socketed like Legos into the craggy hillside, the narrow alleyways of shops and restaurants.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2019

Did it require special equipment, perhaps a rope woven around short lengths of bamboo that could be covertly socketed together?

From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2018

But it's the 11/2-point diamonds inserted in the socketed holes where winch handles fit that really raise eyebrows.

From Time Magazine Archive

The solid stones which form the foundation are much broader than the balcony shafts, so that the socketed arrangement is not seen: it is shown as it would appear in a longitudinal section.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by John Ruskin

Tom Kettering returned at the appointed time, to a minute, and took no notice of his own arrival beyond socketing his whip in its stall, in token of its abdication.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan