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camel

[kam-uhl] / ˈkæm əl /




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Construction of L.A.’s Metro D Line extension in 2017 led to the discovery of camel and possible mammoth fossils.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

"I can see my camels suffering from extreme heat," Ali Umer, a camel herder from Semera in Afar, told the BBC.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Mine is a shade of camel that my haberdasher insists on calling “whiskey.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Without management, camel populations could double every eight years, South Australia's primary industries department says.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

The camel had a limp, louse-bitten quality, with its head hung low.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

In the south, most Arabs are Bedouins, mainly Sunni Muslims who descended from nomadic clans that roamed the Negev Desert herding camels and sheep.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

She rode camels in Egypt, cruised the Nile River and hugged the pillars at Stonehenge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Obviously, clambering up and down the dangerously steep pass, ferrying goods on horseback or by mule or — for a few wacky, experimental months in the mid-1850s, Army camels — wasn’t workable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

Experts say camels comfortably beat the heat up to around 40C by mainly allowing their body temperature to fluctuate by several degrees throughout the day to deal with outside temperature.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Poppy had said Bedouins, like their camels, were much fewer and farther apart than they used to be, but still as friendly.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye


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