magpie
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“You can be in a sort of magpie mode where you’re always looking for things to use, and spiriting those things back to your creative process,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
We never got to find out who Elvis, with his magpie love for all music, might have become if he’d traveled the world and gotten to pick up an ashram sitar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
The Franco-Belgian couturier referenced the extravagant plumage of a roseate spoonbill or the crested cockatoo alongside the humble crow, grey pigeon and magpie.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
A six-eyed magpie is a good indicator that it’s from another realm and not your average two-eyed terrestrial bird.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2025
A magpie, seeing some light-colored object conspicuous on the empty slope, flew closer to look.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
But, in the foreground, magpies and crows are already swarming to peck at the soil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
This is made worse by an independent press that has been decimated and replaced by magpies chirping for attention and any chance to go viral.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2026
It has also been observed in certain animals, including chimpanzees, dolphins, and magpies.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 15, 2025
The boy, having been fearful of getting lost, finds the way home again by following the thread of red yarn—only to discover that the magpies have prepared a wonderful Christmas surprise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
Above me I could see the beaks of a thousand magpies drinking from the pond, drinking and singing happily and filling their snow-white bellies.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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