flower
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I even spot a small yellow flower shooting up from the blackened ground.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Her instantly recognizable flower paintings, desert landscapes, bleached bones and abstractions have won her dozens of museum retrospectives or themed solo exhibitions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Mark Nicholas, who runs flower shop The Big Pink Tree, said: "The fuel increase has really affected really how far we can deliver to serve our customer base."
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
About two years into the job, he began swapping annual flower beds for drought-tolerant succulents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Miss Matilda Maddox, you are the wittiest, most fascinating flower to bloom in Baltimore in years.”
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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Its stark costume designs, as if stamped with pressed flowers, were by Simone Rocha.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Among the flowers were several threatened species, adding ecological significance to the seasonal spectacle.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
At the time, the surfer community in Ensenada turned out in force to commemorate the men by paddling out at one of the area's best known surfing spots and throwing flowers into the sea.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
His films will one day too become flowers left not only as proof of his time on earth, but perhaps as messages for those to come who have the sensibility to appreciate them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
She had us sit on a sofa decorated with roses—I guess they were her favorite flowers.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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A veil rested on their heads, held by a satin flowered headband.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
They flowered and produced fruit as expected, and there were no changes in fruit weight, shape, or sweetness.
From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026
In just two minutes, the movie had delivered everything it promised: a snorting monkey, a sucker in a flowered shirt, a shot of an ominous tire swing and a closeup of a peeled cheekbone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026
"But I'm least impressed with this," she says, gesturing to a Japanese rice that has not flowered.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2025
Instead, flowered cacti not there a moment ago line a path into a ravine, just like a cuento I know.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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Younger students have been using the outdoor classroom areas to talk and play games, while others have been watching figeater beetles and butterflies visit flowering trees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Bishop and Baucom found that flower size and flowering time became linked in the morning glory populations during the relatively short nine-year study period.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Larger flowers may improve a plant's chances of attracting pollinators, while flowering earlier can help plants respond to changing environmental conditions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
The abrasive texture of shark skin repels barnacles and has inspired antimicrobial surface coatings for hospitals; the seeds of a flowering plant offer clues to the designers of probes destined for other worlds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
She handed Sierra a little flowering bulb of garlic, its crackling paper skin fluttering like broken wings onto the kitchen floor.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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Plants (Botany) - Introduction
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