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frog

[frog, frawg] / frɒg, frɔg /
NOUN
jumping amphibian
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The most important thing is to ensure that once the mining has been conducted, the habitat can be returned to a state where the desert rain frog can inhabit it, he said.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

Preserved within the cave were fossils belonging to 12 bird species and four frog species, offering a rare snapshot of a world that existed hundreds of thousands of years before humans reached the islands.

From Science Daily Jun. 23, 2026

On Monday evening, Trump posted on social media an image of a protester dressed in a frog costume holding a sign that said, “First They Came for the Algae.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

Drake is the frog that’s been struck by lightning.

From Salon May 21, 2026

There was a vague smile on the broad mouth and in the lines of the closed eyelids that made the frog appear to be meditating on a homey universe.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

Scientists have uncovered why some amphibian populations rebound after being devastated by a deadly fungal disease that has wiped out frogs and toads around the world.

From Science Daily Jul. 15, 2026

I was in the chorus and in plays, and I worked pushing a cart with dead frogs to biology classes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

Scientists have long posited the earliest water animals to transition to land had amphibious tadpole features, going through a metamorphosis akin to that of today's frogs.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

Dagit said they recently found newt egg masses for the first time in years, as well as a few adult newts and many frogs.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 9, 2026

Without waiting for a response, Oliver—or maybe Nash—grabs the half-inflated toy and gallops back toward the frogs.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

As a Cathedral Dean he wears four frogged buttons on his cuff There are six buttons on his cutaway coat.

From Time Magazine Archive

From Windsor with his good wife and the Prince of Wales he drove through the rain in a landau drawn by six perfectly matched greys mounted by postillions in scarlet coats frogged with gold.

From Time Magazine Archive

Crisp autumn weather had come to Washington, and Harry Truman caught a cold that frogged his throat at times.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dressed up in an elaborate frogged coat and sword, he was honored by budding Novelist Fanny Burney, who praised him as a "lyon of lyons."

From Time Magazine Archive

The strange thing about them was their clothing, for the boys were dressed in the straight trousers and the frogged and braided jackets of the Chinese.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

When it came to clothing he allowed himself extraordinary freedom, the frogging on uniforms or lace on a dress sketched in thick impasto rather than being laboriously defined.

From The Guardian Sep. 26, 2015

And her young protégé Chris Van Hollen hails from the same state as Hoyer — Maryland — complicating any lea- frogging.

From Time Dec. 18, 2013

The film has it more or less right: a dark blue coat with silver frogging and braided epaulettes, partnered with skintight white breeches.

From The Guardian Oct. 5, 2012

Hence the nod to military influences — the Burberry heritage — presented as a much slimmer, belted jacket or a cardigan fastened with military frogging.

From New York Times Feb. 21, 2011

I suggested that the Lizzie might like a turn at frogging, and Josef, with Indian wordlessness, handed the net to him.

From Joy in the Morning by Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman




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