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Recent Examples of mandible
Brawnier females with powerful mandibles act as bodyguards, protecting the colony from intruders.
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2025
Workers and queens also have very similar appearances, with long, slender bodies that are dark brown or black, and legs and mandibles (jawbones) that are a lighter brown or orange color, the extension says.
—Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 16 June 2025
The ant uses its mandible to grab on to the skin before curling its abdomen to reveal its stinger and inject venom into the body.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2025
Thus: Arnold and his commando buddies fight an alien — a big, ugly, awesome one created by the Stan Winston studio with mandibles and long hair and the ability to disappear.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 9 June 2025
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2025
Workers and queens also have very similar appearances, with long, slender bodies that are dark brown or black, and legs and mandibles (jawbones) that are a lighter brown or orange color, the extension says.
—Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 16 June 2025
The ant uses its mandible to grab on to the skin before curling its abdomen to reveal its stinger and inject venom into the body.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2025
Thus: Arnold and his commando buddies fight an alien — a big, ugly, awesome one created by the Stan Winston studio with mandibles and long hair and the ability to disappear.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 9 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mandible
maxilla
Noun
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The jugal bone, or what could be called the cheekbone, and the maxilla, or jawbone, are fused, Bertozzo said.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
17 Sep. 2025
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The Cook County Sheriff’s Office decided to reopen the Gacy file in 2011 as a cold case, exhuming bone fragments and sending eight sets of mandibles and maxilla to the CHI lab in Fort Worth for DNA processing.—
David Montesino,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Jan. 2024
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“Mandible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mandible. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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