death's-head

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Noun
  • Allen was even the player picked in The Athletic’s 2024 anonymous NFL player poll as the next person to win their first-ever MVP award.
    Joe Buscaglia, The Athletic, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Frederiksen may take some heart from a recent poll showing that 85 percent of their countrymen do not want Greenland to be incorporated into the United States.
    Adam Price, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The serial killer's murder spree came to an end in 1994 when his 13-year-old son found a human skull and a pile of bones in the woods around Fox Hollow Farm.
    Christine Pelisek, People.com, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Bodies were split apart, skulls crushed, limbs torn off.
    Brad Wolf, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • To be precise: bison liver pate with sweet onion jam on a puffed garlic chip.
    Miguel Otárola, The Denver Post, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Guests can expect dishes like Croque Madame with ham, gruyere, egg and bechamel, country pate, and duck confit with radicchio, apples, pumpkin seeds, dates topped with a vinaigrette.
    Amber Love Bond, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • There's always one shot that leaves a golfer shaking his or her head.
    Mike Hutton, Post-Tribune, 19 July 2017
  • Delimitros said one of the truck’s side view mirrors struck her in the head, causing minor injuries.
    David Hernandez, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 July 2017
Noun
  • The cranium was similar to two unusually large skulls found in Xuchang County in Henan province between 2007 and 2014, which had a 1,800-cubic-centimeter (110-cubic-inch) capacity.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
  • That's where Joseph Keil found a skeleton in a sarcophagus filled with water, but for some reason, Keil only removed the cranium from the tomb before sealing it back up.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Mistaken as a comparatively commonplace artwork, it was owned by a 17th-century heir to the Scottish crown who was later beheaded, passed to the illegitimate son of an 18th-century duke, and then languished in obscurity for more than a century.
    Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Garnish with two mint crowns (the top of the plant) twisted together to form a bushy mint explosion on top.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • But Anunoby remembering a steal or a knee to the noggin is not unusual, even if the play in question was more than 40 games ago.
    Fred Katz, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Today, brain rot reflects a worry that consuming the internet's endless waves of memes and video clips, especially on social media, might numb one's noggin.
    Bill Chappell, NPR, 2 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Wear a hat outdoors, but if your head is uncovered, apply sunscreen to your scalp.
    Julie Scott, MSN, ANP-BC, AOCNP, Verywell Health, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Aloe vera Anti-inflammatory aloe vera is a quality hair mask ingredient for anyone with a dry or itchy scalp.
    BestReviews, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
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