crow
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That’s 28 miles as the crow flies, but our route, with a detour for lunch in Cuyama, swelled the journey to more than 100 miles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Mbappe had left, the three Lamine Yamals had long since shot the crow.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Most microraptors were quite small, with some species reaching only about the size of a crow.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
It is 1941 and Neriya, a young Jewish girl in a Lithuanian shtetl, is being noisily summoned to the forest by a regular visitor to her house, a crow she calls Buster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
She said this in a voice so authoritative that the crow fluttered down immediately.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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Scavenger animals such as possums, red foxes and crows can be exposed to the virus while devouring the carcasses of infected birds.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
“Welcome to Fobes Ranch… a truly extraordinary piece of California mountain history,” the listing crows.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Some live-capture traps are permitted for pest control of species like crows and pigeons, but traps must be checked regularly and non-target species released unharmed.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
When the fighting nears, the crows chivy them to different hiding places.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
“Now that you mention it, I was chatting with the crows earlier. They were wondering why you guys walk like you’re wearing diapers.”
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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Accidents involving professionals like the medical chopper crew, he said, are much rarer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
The FAA's review board reached this conclusion about the software bug's safety "because pilots retain full control of the aircraft and the indications to the flight crew are clear and unambiguous."
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
Moments after vanquishing Conner, the Mighty Mary crew learned that Koch had agreed to a three-way deal with Conner and a third yacht syndicate, Young America, to slide all three teams to the final.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The vessel, which has a crew of about 100 submariners, will have its performance tested during sea trials over the coming months.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
His task is to blast the solid rock into pieces small enough for his crew to dig loose with hand tools and haul away in ox carts.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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“Offering a generous 20-foot-wide footprint and spanning 5,000 square feet, this six-bedroom, six-bath residence defines timeless urban sophistication,” the listing crowed.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
In one exchange, Kessler reminded Rapino that he had crowed during a 2011 call that Live Nation was bigger than all the promoters in the world combined.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
"So much for being isolated," crowed the tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets earlier this week.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2025
For Ohtani, the manager said, the challenge now is finding comfort in the crowed new routine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
The children crowded around, and Miss Peregrine lifted her beak and crowed at them to show that she was tired but all right.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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Mr. Hilton is all for crowing about the size of the state’s economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
But the deal he’s now crowing about ensures only that the U.S and Iran will talk about new nuclear limits.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2026
While crowing about its Pentagon projects, IonQ hasn’t highlighted that the majority of them weren’t funded in the last two federal budgets, Wolfpack says.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
“When you have 7.5 billion people who don’t like you very well and you have 300 million who are crowing about how they have done.”
From Salon ● May 3, 2025
I probably would’a overslept, but the sound of a chicken crowing had raised me up early.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
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