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
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
It was only when samples arrived at the biomedical research laboratory in the capital Kinshasa -- nearly 1,800 kilometres away as the crow flies -- that the Ebola outbreak was confirmed.
From Barron's ● May 24, 2026
A month or two later, a crow landed on the shoulder of an old woman who was sitting making rope in the shade of her house.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
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Yet the crows offer a saving contrast to the Darwinian competition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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
Birds, from pigeons and crows to the more rare roseate spoonbill, were the inspiration.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
A hundred thoughts flew into her mind like a flock of upset crows.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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“It feels like the Los Angeles crew is a lot more concerned about our safety,” says the onetime “Girls” producer, lightheartedly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Val Moreno looks like he’s enjoying every minute while volunteering to hold the down marker at Servite High home football games as part of the Friars’ chain crew.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
In the past two weeks, she let go of 15 employees—nearly half of her crew, who handled everything from event preparation to floral design.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The stop on the Lincoln comes amid reports of poor living conditions and some crew members struggling with their mental health following a nine-month deployment without port visits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
They carried the shipwrecked crew through the ocean toward a city that rose in yellow stone out of the water of a lagoon.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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In one exchange, Kessler reminded Rapino that he had crowed during a 2011 call that Live Nation was bigger than all the promoters in the world combined.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
“This property has it all,” the listing crowed.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 2, 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
“I’m educating the experts here,” Burry crowed in an e-mail.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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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
From far away on the north side where the Italians lived and kept chickens in their yards, came the crowing of a rooster.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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