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O’Grady ate ants and moved at night, managing to signal base with radio signal bursts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Both eagles left the two eggs unattended for several hours, and ravens ate them.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

To avoid yield traps we also looked for names whose quarterly dividend payments ate up no more than 75% of their earnings.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

Participants who frequently ate the same foods lost an average of 5.9% of their body weight, compared with 4.3% among those who ate a wider variety of foods.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

After much exhausting digging, he grubbed up four more, ate two, and stuffed two in his jerkin for later.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver