cockroach
Example Sentences
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Their highly organized societies raise an obvious question: how did insects with such advanced social systems evolve from solitary ancestors that closely resembled modern cockroaches?
From Science Daily
Some readers imagine Kafka’s protagonist, Gregor Samsa, a hardworking salesman in a city that seems analogous to Kafka’s native Prague, has morphed into a cockroach.
Spencer Pratt is accustomed to being labeled a villain, but a more fitting descriptor might be “cockroach.”
From Los Angeles Times
On the back of his left hand was a doodle of a cockroach.
From Literature
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Not enough “cockroach” losses, in the form of frauds or surprising losses, have emerged so far to derail that growth yet.
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