braincases

noun

plural of braincase
as in skulls

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  1. skulls
  2. noggins
  3. pates
  4. craniums
  5. polls
  6. heads
Noun
  • Measuring more than 10 feet by 9 feet, Amwan Agwe… (2026), for example, depicts green hills and blue waves alongside the skulls, candles, and fish that nod to Fèt Gede, Haiti’s annual festival honoring the spirits of the dead.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The results were compared with the skulls of other two-legged meat-eating dinosaurs, such as tyrannosaurs, spinosaurs and raptors.
    — Archie Clarke, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of skulls
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  • Both Elysium and Upgrade contain their fair share of split noggins, but no film does it quite as jovially or consistently as Dredd.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of noggins
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  • The kitchen makes its own terrines, pates and pickles, among other pantry staples, which shine in dishes like mussels in tomato-miso escabeche and burrata with pistachio pistou and fermented honey.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • French research suggests that people with numerous, deep forehead wrinkles are more likely to die of heart disease than those with smooth frontal pates.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of pates
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  • The other two craniums were found in 1990.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Of course, something similar typified our evolution, too, which can all too easily be cast as the blossoming forth of ever-plumper craniums.
    — Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
Definition of craniums
Noun
  • One proof point is 2018, when some polls showed Brown winning re-election by double digits.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Israel’s average net favorability fell from +51 points in July 2018 to -16 in July 2026, according to multiple polls, a 67-point drop over eight years.
    — Kevin Liptak, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of polls
Noun
  • The left, of course, took this completely out of context because most things fly over their heads, and instead viewed it as Sweeney somehow demeaning women's sports.
    — Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026
  • What is the probability of getting exactly three heads and three tails?
    — Dana Mackenzie, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2026
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