tooth
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The evidence comes from bite and tooth marks left on the fossilized remains of herbivores.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Agnew mailed Merriam a single tooth, but the bearskin had already been sent to someone in Korea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Some investors are worried that this artificial-intelligence-powered bull market might be getting a little long in the tooth as it approaches its fourth birthday.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
I didn’t lose my sweet tooth, nor did I turn away from carbonation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Then she’d put the stone tooth inside, and tied it up with locks of her own and Torak’s hair.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
"One striking finding was the large survival difference between the groups: patients with more natural teeth survived nearly two years longer than those with fewer teeth," Uemura says.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
Potential human remains, including a jaw with teeth still attached, have been recovered from the largest reservoir in the US, officials said, as an ongoing drought causes water levels to drop across western states.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
One photo showed a human jawbone complete with teeth and dental fillings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
He cut his campaigning teeth in the 1960s, joining protests against harsh homelessness laws that split up families and getting involved in the squatting movement.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
On his chest he wore a magnificent necklace of red deer teeth.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
The inspectors also reported crews spraying contaminated pool water onto neighboring properties and into storm drains, and excavator operators using toothed buckets that caused clean and contaminated soil to be commingled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025
Containing extracts of seaweeds such as toothed wrack and sea spaghetti, seaweed-based skincare lines claim anti-photoaging, hydrating and protective, nourishing and skin-plumping effects.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2024
Scientists at Hokkaido University determined DNA sequences of genes which were expressed in acoustic fat bodies -- collections of fat around the head that toothed whales use for echolocation.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024
During opening weekend on March 16, the museum was a hive of freckles and gap toothed grins, with visitors ranging in age from newborn to well seasoned.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
I didn't have a good answer to that, and instead toothed my bottom lip to keep it from quivering.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
Then comes a softening process to prepare the files for the men who grind or file them to a true form, and for toothing.
From A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White
The second year included rowlock and bonded segmental arches; blocking, toothing, and corbeling; building and bonding of vaulted walls; polygonal and circular walls, piers and chimneys; fire-places and flues.
From One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America by William Carleton
So in toothing, fits of convulsion with stupor frequently occur, and cease when the tooth advances; but this is not to be expected in advanced life.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
The strange feature in this case is the zig-zag "toothing" which is employed to represent the jaws.
From In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious by W.T. (William Thomas) Vincent
The depth of the toothing is 18 mm.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various
