flea
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Mom would go to garage sales and flea markets to buy them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
And Berlin’s flea markets are always worth exploring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Visiting the Pochaina flea market 10 days after the Russian attack, AFP journalists could still smell the mix of burnt metal and plastic hanging in the air.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
At the time, campaigns were a sideline for Reilly, who supported himself selling doodads and other salvaged wares in a movable flea market he operated on Fisherman’s Wharf.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
The flea market was good for records and autographs, but none of the angels mustered an appropriate howdy.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
It’s caused by a bacteria called Yersinia pestis that infects fleas and the small mammals that host fleas, and there are actually three types of plague depending on which part of the body becomes infected.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
When large numbers of rodents become infected and die, the fleas seek other sources of food—including humans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Angelenos also should ensure the lids of their trash bins are closed and block any places around their homes where fleas can enter or hide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
A clergyman I met at Reagan National Airport recently told me that our world is as filled with corruption as a Latin American animal shelter is filled with fleas.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
Even when the winter’s bad and others starve and freeze, We’ve porridge from the kennels — But we also have the fleas.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
