butterfly
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They are the large blue butterfly, the Duke of Burgundy butterfly, the marsh fritillary butterfly, the wart-biter cricket, juniper and the burnt-tip orchid.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Ms. Williams delights in the paradoxes of butterfly evolution, including monarch caterpillars’ calibrated resistance to milkweed toxins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Scenic painter Miriam Hellmann was the skillful hand behind the mural’s final product: an image of a giant, bright orange poppy, a butterfly and a peacock, along with floral and faunal symbols.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
The gardens said that since the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme began in 1976, overall butterfly abundance has dropped by nearly 20%.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
When he turns at the end of the lane and swims the butterfly back, I step out of the alcove into plain sight.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Like the fragile butterflies that flitter around Alicent after Helaena’s death, she was too good for all of this nonsense.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Skubal made no apologies about the butterflies he was feeling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The site was home to scarce plants including pyramidal and bee orchids, and a rare colony of marbled white butterflies that had relied on common knapweed and red fescue.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The butterflies never go away, Dalton said, and an adrenaline rush right before a physically demanding stunt is inevitable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The way she calls my name makes my butterflies take up their flags, stand in a line like an army poised for battle — like what I’m about to walk into might be dangerous.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
“The shucked abalone is trimmed, butterflied, and thwacked lightly with a mallet.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
My favorite part of this recipe is that it stretches your dollar by using an entire, butterflied chicken instead of individual breasts or thighs.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2023
Then there’s butterflied branzino, one side painted red, the other green, with sauces coaxed from guajillo mayonnaise and tomatillo and serrano, respectively.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2022
“I’ve butterflied in other places, but this is where you go to get some incredible tropical butterflies that you won’t see anywhere else.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2022
Cattle carcasses, flayed and butterflied, flitted past the wide observation window.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Unlike the pursuit of birding, butterflying takes place at a civilized hour because butterflies don’t come out until the day warms to at least 60 degrees.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 9, 2016
For some butterfly watchers, even a gentle netting is too disturbing, and they advocate butterflying with special binoculars that feature a short focal point.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 9, 2016
Jazmin starts by butterflying a chicken thigh with a deft stroke of her knife.
From Salon ● May 21, 2012
He came butterflying and frog-kicking down the final lap of the 220-yard breaststroke race to win.
From Time Magazine Archive
If you were to watch him at work, you'd see that in the process of butterflying chicken breasts, he'll almost automatically run his knife across his sharpening tool every 15 or 20 seconds.
From The Perdue Chicken Cookbook by Mitzi Perdue
