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[sok-it] / ˈsɒk ɪt /








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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

Then he removes the pipe from the socket.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

Several jawbones contained smooth deposits inside their empty tooth sockets that looked different from naturally accumulated sediment.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

Next she cleaned my face, applied massage cream and gently massaged my face and eye area, manipulating the outer corners of my eye sockets as well as under my brow bones and on my temples.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 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

“These sockets saw, and these jaws spoke and swallowed. This is a monument to them. A temple.”

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026

She looked like someone who enjoyed sticking her fingers in electrical sockets.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

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

Shoulder-straps and a socketed belt are provided to let the fisherman put his back into his fight with the fish.

From Time Magazine Archive

A small portion of this hoard, consisting of two bronze trumpets, seven crotals, five socketed spear-heads, and a socketed gouge, are preserved in the Royal Irish Academy’s collection in the National Museum.

From The Bronze Age in Ireland by George Coffey

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




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