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noun

ˈskəl

as in cranium

the case of bone that encloses the brain and supports the jaws of vertebrates paleoanthropologists recently found the skull of a prehistoric man in a remote area of the desert

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as in to brain

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Recent Examples of skull

Noun

The fossil measured more than 15 feet long and included everything from the animal's enormous skull to most of its skeleton. —

Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026 Moreno died from a gunshot wound to the base of the skull, prosecutors said. —

Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2026

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The ball was sitting on such tight grass that he easily could have chunked or skulled it. —

Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 17 June 2019 This leaves one big question: Why were people drilling into one another’s skulls 5,000 years ago in the first place? —

Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2018 See All Example Sentences for skull

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In the case of the female individual, the authors noted an unusual break at the base of the cranium that likely occurred near the time of death.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 11 June 2026
Scratches inside her cranium point to the removal of her brain, while long bones like the humeri, femur, and ulna were carved down to sharp points.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 June 2026