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tooth

[tooth] / tuθ /


NOUN
a toothlike or tooth-shaped object
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In “Death of an Ordinary Man,” Ms. Perry offers an endearing and achingly real portrait of her father-in-law: his set ways, gentle pleasures, sweet tooth and general contentment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Something like a million people vote in this event every year, according to the daytime news segment that I caught at the dentist the other afternoon while getting a tooth cleaning.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Eleven-year-old Bruce laid on his back under a general anaesthetic, as they removed the problem tooth and checked him for other illnesses.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The agency did not say when the tooth was found or which creek it came from.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

Gingersnipes came hurtling out of the forest, a wide grin baring every pointed tooth.

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

Meanwhile, just weeks before, the sump pump in my basement was working overtime in the teeth of torrential rains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

But Catlos said the teeth were probably already millions of years old by the time the asteroid struck.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Blood samples are easier to profile, but those taken from teeth or bones can take several days to process.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

"Do you have more teeth than a normal person?"

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

I gritted my teeth and shook my head.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

In a study published in Science Advances on Wednesday, researchers equipped six of the toothed whales, sometimes called "unicorns of the sea," with satellite transmitters, and had them explore remote East Greenland waters.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Those predators included anacondas, saber toothed mammals, flightless "terror birds" and sebecids, a group of land dwelling relatives of crocodylians.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

Bladder, toothed and spiral wracks often have notably higher antioxidant contents than many other seaweeds.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2024

Solid structures are set to vibrating by toothed bows in crustaceans and insects.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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

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

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

Unwittingly one will reason as if the slight variation were a toothing stone set up by the organism and reserved for a later construction.

From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell




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