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Duckett edged a beauty for a golden duck.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Participants perform duck walks, suitcase carries, bear crawls and overhead holds reminiscent of the log and boat carries in Marine boot camps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

For a Down Under-play on a French duck à l’orange, they keep things local.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

Michelle Monaghan, always good, is also among the cast, as homicide detective Amanda Beck, though she lays low enough to duck all the free-floating ham in this adaptation of Alex North’s 2019 novel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Why did I have to duck in the shadows when all I wanted to do was stroll down the sidewalk with the sun beaming fully on my face?

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Olsi produced some binoculars and showed me egrets, plovers, ducks, cormorants, bee-eaters, a pelican.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

“The house was small, so we built onto it to add a kitchen. We use the barns as a sanctuary for rescued horses, ducks, chickens, peacocks, goats, and other animals,” she went on.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

Unfortunately, it rained and rained and Angel Stadium became a soggy field more suitable for ducks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

She says she lost most of her goats, 300 ducks, 300 chickens and a sizeable amount of fish, as well as the machine she used to make animal feed.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

The hens and dibby ducks clucked with annoyance as I gathered their smooth, warm eggs.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

"OK, I'm sorry," Massey was heard saying before she ducked.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

“I immediately ducked down, put my hands up, and covered my head,” she said.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

Then, hoping to avoid any urgent diaper events, I ducked into the next room and dialed up the president.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

Other major cities have had formal infrastructure plans for years, while L.A. has ducked and dithered.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2026

I ducked back down, my heart in my throat as I took in the mess that was the remains of the Union army in front of me.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

One person sits in concentrated silence at each window, another perched in the back of the pick-up truck, ducking for the occasional limb branching from trees which rise around us.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Not Brody, whose chiseled, wiry presence is ever in motion, flailing, ducking, wincing, yearning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

In modern slang it’s ghosting, or merely ducking out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

As I continued to circle the crowd, ducking between rows of folding chairs, I caught the same refrains over and over.

From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2026

“Ow!” he howled as I darted away, ducking under the back of the tablecloth, so that when he raised it to look under the table, there was no one there.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish