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There were no blinds or curtains in the window, and an electric socket was "hanging dangerously off the wall".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

It operates from a regular power socket, can be wheeled around and doesn't use much power, according to its maker.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

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

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 J-shaped part is there, but there’s nothing flame-like about the socket.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

At the same time, generations of owls continually deposited bones throughout the cave, providing countless hollow tooth sockets that solitary bees could use.

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

Teeth were loosening and eyes were deep-sunken in their sockets when they made landfall on the green land to the West.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

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

Sometimes they give trouble when the glue loosens, but the socketed club is much easier to break.

From The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon

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