beetle
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It cited persistently weak wood markets, difficulties with log supply related to wildfires and the wood-boring mountain pine beetle, as well as the U.S. duties and tariff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The newly established beetle genus Luffy was not given its name simply as a playful reference.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
A three-year-project to help boost sand dune-living rare beetle and toad numbers is to start later this year.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Japanese red elder plants protect their own survival by dropping fruits that contain Heterhelus beetle larvae.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
The beetle tickled as it wandered over my hand.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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At barely more than five feet tall, and with a bushy white beard and beetled brow, magician James “The Amazing” Randi resembles nothing so much as an angry elf.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2015
Napoleon, at the Pyramids, thrust one hand over his diaphragm, thickened his neck, beetled his brows, said: "Men, from the summits of these Pyramids 40 centuries look down upon you."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Since quantities of U.S. nursery stock are grown in the most beetled area of New Jersey, the insects would soon have infested the whole U.S. but for a firm Federal quarantine.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Plump, dewlapped Judge Caverly beetled through his spectacles in amazement at the couple, said something secret.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It stood upon a bold and upright brow that beetled over the plain below.
From Imogen A Pastoral Romance by Godwin, William
This beetling between England and Ireland would be repeated throughout his life.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2017
From almost anywhere in La Rinconada, you look up and you see her: La Bella Durmiente, Sleeping Beauty, an enormous glacier beetling above the town.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015
His unusual actorly physiognomy—the ruddy, transparent skin, the bulky but far from graceless body, the beetling blond eyebrows—lent itself to all manner of physical and gestural shape-shifting.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2014
Each looked like a character the other might have drawn, Maurice with his fireplug body and beetling brows and Robert with his shock of Wild Thing hair.
From Slate ● May 9, 2012
Ahead are beetling rocks and dark blue glancing Amphitrite, surging, roars around them.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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