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socket

[sok-it] / ˈsɒk ɪt /








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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

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

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

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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