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
“We should be fighting tooth and nail to retain all of our companies,” Walker said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
We just have to pick up the tooth fairy and Superman and we’ll get right on it.
From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen
Researchers at Hiroshima University have found that the number of natural teeth a person has may provide useful clues about long-term survival after surgery for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
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
Yet some feel that anything that relies on an honor system lacks the teeth necessary to combat such a far-reaching issue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
“All right, we’re leaving,” Dad says between clenched teeth.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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
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
Menopause is known to exist in five species of toothed whale: short-finned pilot whales, false killer whales, killer whales, narwhals and beluga whales.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 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
If the cause can be detected, as in toothing or worms, it should be removed.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Broad surfaces of close-grained hardwood having a shiny surface are usually carefully roughened with a fine toothing plane blade previous to glueing.
From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by William Fairham
It frequently happens, that during Dentition, or the Time of their toothing, Children prove subject to Knots or Kernels.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
The depth of the toothing is 10 mm.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various
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
