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Recent Examples of braincaseBelieved to belong to a male, Skull 5 also has the smallest braincase of the five individuals.—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2016 Xuchang 2, while not as large, appears to have had a modern size braincase as well.—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2017 In all, the researchers found the braincase, several vertebrae, teeth, claws and part of a jaw, which was enough to identify the find as a new species.—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2016 More than 3 million years ago, the braincase of Australopithecus afarensis, likely the first fully bipedal hominin, was only slightly larger than a chimpanzee’s.—Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2020 See All Example Sentences for braincase
The scans showed pathological bone growths in the cranium and jawbone.
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Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
21 Feb. 2025
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.
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.
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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.
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Filet mignon and panna cotta
During the evening, Prime + Proper's staff waited on the kids, offering shared appetizers of salmon pate, dry-aged steak tartare and heirloom tomato.
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Susan Selasky,
Detroit Free Press,
14 May 2024
To be precise: bison liver pate with sweet onion jam on a puffed garlic chip.
Majorities say the state of the union is not strong, that the country is headed in the wrong direction and President Trump is rushing to make changes without considering their impact, a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds.
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Domenico Montanaro,
NPR,
3 Mar. 2025
Additional polling data would be helpful to validate (or refute) the sentiment from the J.L. Partners poll.
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