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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

He’d placed the monocle on the tufted fur beneath his socket, then peered into the pond’s reflection.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

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

Squire and his team could see, from the type of light sockets and electrical outlets visible in the images, that Lucy was in North America.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 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

His nostrils were sockets stuffed with hairy darkness.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

The stave here is socketed and the pin turned to a smaller diameter.

From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by William Fairham

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