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tooth

[tooth] / tuθ /


NOUN
a toothlike or tooth-shaped object
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Readers know that flying these days is as enjoyable as a tooth extraction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

If he does make it to Chiclayo, the pope will be able to indulge his famously sweet tooth with an array of goodies fashioned in his likeness.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

That certainly seems to imply that the current bull market is getting long in the tooth.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

After more than a decade studying fungi, Large said the rarest species he had seen in the region was the coral tooth fungus.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

‘Remember,’ she said, ‘if you find the stone tooth, don’t touch it with your bare, hands. And you’d better let me have the pouch with the river eyes.’

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

PSG were fantastic in the first half but City really showed their teeth after the break and, in my humble opinion, were unlucky not to get anything out of the game.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

"Not only could there be Ghost Sharks in those shipping containers, but those Ghost Sharks now have teeth," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

The team also analyzed chemical signatures preserved in the animals' bones and teeth.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Venture capitalist David Sacks, part of a new White House task force on AI, suggested insurance could add teeth to a voluntary industry agreement on controls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

“All right, we’re leaving,” Dad says between clenched teeth.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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

Also unearthed were fireplaces containing evidence of the burning of toothed wrack seaweed to form soda ash.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 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

"The tenaculum is a developmental relic, not a bizarre one-off, and the first clear example of a toothed structure outside the jaw."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025

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

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

The depth of the toothing is 18 mm.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various

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

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

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

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


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