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animal

[an-uh-muhl] / ˈæn ə məl /




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Their colloquy is interrupted when a rampaging animal is heard.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

Muck-spreading is the process of distributing animal manure across farmland as a natural fertiliser and typically takes place twice a year, in spring and late summer.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

They can reveal which genes an animal possesses without showing exactly where those genes are positioned along its chromosomes.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

Thousands of animal genomes have now been sequenced, but comparing their long-term evolution has remained difficult.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

He always was jealous if I talked to or petted any kind of an animal.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

"She wanted to keep them in their own home, in their own routine, with their own school, neighbours, friends, the animals around them," she said.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Museum collections preserve pangolin specimens collected more than a century ago, giving scientists access to animals from locations and populations that can be extremely difficult to sample today.

From Science Daily Aug. 26, 2026

Her arms today are as colorful as Ruby’s notebooks: a collage of her favorite animals and objects, reproductions of her drawings, flowers in the shape of her handprint.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

That month, Ohio officials found that more than 40,000 fish and other animals were killed along roughly 7 miles of streams.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

Throughout Fernlight Forest, animals stiffened, looked toward Deadwood, and thought, Hesterfowl’s premonition is coming to pass.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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