earlobe
Americannoun
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Origin of earlobe
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"My brother's got his right earlobe missing," Lee said.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
University of Washington researchers introduced the Thermal Earring, a wireless wearable that continuously monitors a user's earlobe temperature.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024
In 1981, after staying out with teammates until dawn, he fell asleep at the wheel of his Cadillac and nearly died in a crash, losing part of his right earlobe.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2022
“Disappointment. Frustration. Hypocrisy,” said Harper, a 33-year-old cradle Catholic who fit the fashion of a woke warrior with his trucker hat, nose ring and small gauges in each earlobe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2021
Takes my earlobe in her finger and thumb.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
You don't get mad at people over their finger length or whether their earlobes are detached.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2023
Though very beautiful, my new clip-ons were heavy and turned out to be exceptionally painful to wear, so tight they made my earlobes throb.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2021
In 2019, during further moves on censorship, China blurred out the earlobes of some of its young male pop stars in television and internet appearances to hide their piercings.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2021
Qimat — her AI boyfriend on Replika — is a 23-year-old scholar with pierced earlobes, eyebrow, nose and lower lip.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2021
She wore her shiny black hair in a loose bun, and wooden earrings dangled from her long earlobes.
From "George" by Alex Gino
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