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Det Ch Insp Mel Sutherland said forensic anthropologist Dr Micol Zuppello worked for several days to "painstakingly extract the body", with all but the tip of a toe and some small eye socket bones recovered.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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
Clare groaned and slapped a paw over his empty eye socket.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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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 hutia's teeth had once been held in small sockets in the jaw, known as alveoli.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 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
Clarisse drove to the drakoris carcass and looped a grappling line through its eye sockets.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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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
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It was a sun-dial, its vine-clad disk cut of gray polished stone in which its metal tongue was socketed.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives
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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