dodo
Example Sentences
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I came across exactly one ultra-rare single-zero roulette wheel on the Strip, which felt a little bit like uncovering the hutch of the last surviving dodo.
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2025
The company’s other de-extinction hopes include reviving the woolly mammoth, the dodo, and the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2025
The Hall of Extinction and Hope analogizes manmade climate change and habitat destruction to a slow-moving asteroid that has already obliterated species such as the passenger pigeon, dodo and great auk.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2025
Patience, of course, is as rare as the dodo bird on the Govan Road.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025
Even the very last dodo on earth started out as a baby dodo, full of hope and promise.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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