crow
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That’s 28 miles as the crow flies, but our route, with a detour for lunch in Cuyama, swelled the journey to more than 100 miles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Perhaps the same will be true with “Obsession”; Curry Barker’s copycats will try and fail to interpret the trials of dating when personality is a facade, and I’ll be left eating crow.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Despite his age, the pensioner is also partial to a bit of Pilates, and recently mastered the "crow" pose.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Most microraptors were quite small, with some species reaching only about the size of a crow.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
High John stood on Old Familiar’s back as the shadow crow cawed and flapped above us.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
“Welcome to Fobes Ranch… a truly extraordinary piece of California mountain history,” the listing crows.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
We just saw crows, loitering on fence posts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
There is a chance the crisis widens, its unknowables blooming into view, the crows coming home to roost.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026
Claire Anthony, 25, and boyfriend, Joel Swindle, 24, said they discovered a puffin being attacked by crows while walking their dog in Lunan Bay in Angus on Saturday.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
“I do. Any time. Just ask for Jeremy. Any of the crows can find me. And now, if you will excuse me...”
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
“A 250-person crew is working 20 hours a day, seven days a week to keep the project ahead of schedule and under budget,” he wrote on Aug. 13.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Pant was the only sailor on board to have been charged, with most of the other 24 crew members since repatriated.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Paul Garrod, chairman and crew member of the Caister lifeboat, said the callout was a "little bit different", but they were more than willing to help.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
In a nondescript tower in the foothills of the Koolau Mountains, a crew of University of Hawaii students, staff and faculty hope a local aerospace industry might change that.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The day after the first plume, the same news crew that had flown David Johnston to the peak of the mountain came again to Mount St. Helens.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
“Sculptural, light-filled, and profoundly livable, this architectural gem stands as a testament to Brouse’s signature vision a residence that celebrates artistry, space, and the boundless beauty of the hills that surround it,” it crowed.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
The fifth banned person is Imran Ahmed, whose Center for Countering Digital Hate has crowed about its role in passing the Online Safety Act and has advised the U.K.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
"So much for being isolated," crowed the tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets earlier this week.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2025
Co-host Charlie Kirk crowed that “every hand of 7,000 people” went up after he asked the crowd if they cared.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2025
“What possibilities!” he crowed, as if he hadn’t even heard me.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
But the deal he’s now crowing about ensures only that the U.S and Iran will talk about new nuclear limits.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2026
It was first to publicly announce an end to the exchange with Israel and avoided crowing about the downing of the Apache as it had when other American aircraft were shot down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Gen. Pam Bondi tried to deflect questions about her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein records by crowing about it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026
While crowing about its Pentagon projects, IonQ hasn’t highlighted that the majority of them weren’t funded in the last two federal budgets, Wolfpack says.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
He quit when the roosters started crowing at daybreak.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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