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Several British zoos are setting up so-called ark populations of the glutinous snail, one of Europe's rarest species, using creatures bred in a back garden in Ceredigion.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Above the Torah ark in Ms. Wisse’s synagogue, an admonition is written in Hebrew: “Know before whom you stand.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

The first is an entry room where a storm is brewing and animals are loaded into the ark.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2026

Let me explain, and at the risk of coming across like a guy building an ark in the desert, offer options for adding dividends at a time of relative scarcity.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

This one is a beautiful boat-like room of dark wood and bright stained-glass panels of, it looks like, yup, Noah building the ark, Noah greeting the animals as they board, Noah, Noah, Noah.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

I understand the argument that zoos are now arks, safe places where endangered animals and genetic material are preserved in a world where thousands of species are hurtling toward extinction.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2025

There’s nothing wrong with Indiana Jones’ “discovery” of lost arks or hidden tombs, or the five billion other pyramids-and-papyrus-scroll tales sold in books, films and television.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2022

The restoration is addressing the woodwork, gilding, Torah arks and bimahs, or altars.

From New York Times ● May 4, 2022

Umbrellas, if not arks, are needed in the Pacific Northwest, while in the Rockies snow shovels are gathering cobwebs.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2021

I am no connoisseur in Dutch dolls, nor Noah's arks, madam, although modern society presents us with something very like both; but I concluded that the prices were not exorbitant.

From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever