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The massive beasts have a penchant for ripping off bumpers, tusking doors, and sitting on hoods.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 13, 2022

Taking a cue from the Inuit who indicated that narwhal tusking was not a sign of aggression, he discovered that the unicornlike tusk was a sensory organ, capable of detecting changes in the ocean environment.

From Scientific American • Feb. 13, 2013

Things got a little hairy when Beckham gave Tim a tusking and Tim had to work hard to dodge our vehicle in retreat.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2012

We stopped on an elephant trail that led into the cave, beside a wall of rock that was covered with diagonal hatch marks made by the elephants tusking the rocks for salt.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Now, many a crown was doffed; scepters laid aside; girdles slackened; and among those verdant viands the bearded kings like goats did browse; or tusking their wild boar's meat, like mastiffs ate.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman