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bird

[burd] / bɜrd /
NOUN
flying animal
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The boy holds a caged bird; the girl, a fish tank.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The nonprofit organization said in a Facebook post that the bird had been in the care of its veterinary and wildlife teams for several weeks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

He had told the BBC documentary: "I think I was about 13 when I said to my dad that I wanted to learn to fly like a bird."

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Anthropic this month said it had detected attempts to use its Claude chatbot to engineer a dangerous bird flu adapted for mammals, with “enhanced pandemic potential.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

How was it possible that I’d never hear him ask me for a seven-letter word for something ever again, or what genus a particular species of bird falls under?

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

His environmental projects include turning over some land to wildflowers to support nature, including birds and insects.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The viper, which has two hornlike projections on its snout, feeds mainly on rodents and ground-dwelling birds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Herzog impresses this notion from the very beginning: A dream shared by Joan and Jean, in which the sisters stand in a corridor flanked by caged birds.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Falconers say that one, or a small team, of falcons or hawks can be flown over an extended period of time until the smaller nuisance birds start to disperse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

They both knew that there were yellow birds and fairies in Leigh the Bard’s underground home.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova




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