tooth
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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
I didn’t lose my sweet tooth, nor did I turn away from carbonation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Taking care not to touch the Nanuak with his bare hands, he tipped the lamp, the stone tooth and the river eyes into the wovengrass pouch.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Ten tackles a game last season became as routine as brushing his teeth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Barnard tells BBC Newsbeat he feels he got into racing by the "skin of my teeth", due to the extreme costs it takes to climb the motorsport ladder.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
He’d sometimes entertain colleagues by pulling out a bridge that covers his missing front teeth.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Federal funds are conditioned on preschool providers following 133 pages of rules, which prescribe everything from how often children brush their teeth to classroom disciplinary procedures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
After struggling another minute, I surrender the packet and find myself briefly mesmerized by the sight of him tearing open the package with his teeth.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
Bladder, toothed and spiral wracks often have notably higher antioxidant contents than many other seaweeds.
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
His projects conduct electricity, engage motion with toothed wheels, react in concert with universal laws of physics.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
Or when they are not corbeling they may be toothing.
From Love Conquers All by Gluyas Williams
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
The depth of the toothing is 10 mm.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various
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 depth of the toothing is 18 mm.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various
