mate
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Reverting to his Glaswegian accent, Bridges adds: "That's pretty much it, mate."
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
The invasive females attract native male mantises, which attempt to mate but are ultimately eaten, reducing local populations.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
His camp has said he is mulling a female running mate.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Joy Benedict, a journalist with CBS L.A., met Steers about a decade ago while doing her first story on Jackie, Shadow’s mate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
All this left me more energized to help make the final push for Barack and Joe Biden, the affable senator from Delaware who’d soon be announced as his running mate.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Millions of sterile male Mexican fruit flies will be released over parts of San Diego County, after one mated female fruit fly was detected around Spring Valley, according to food and agriculture regulators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
Behind the crosshatched front grille lives a well-tempered, turbocharged 3.5-liter V6, mated to an eight-speed automatic transmission and permanent all-wheel drive, including a digitally controlled limited-slip differential.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
However, “beyond that there are vague fears that the AI providers would either be directly competitive or be mated with other solutions to imitate Palantir.”
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
For most species once they've mated and their fledglings have left they sing less and focus on surviving the cold months.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025
Birds built nests, raccoons mated, foxes called to each other, seeking again their lifelong mates.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
For four-day periods every year from March to August, legions of small, silver fish called grunion ride the waves ashore for mating rituals, beginning on the nights of the full and new moons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Barfield said her team stays away from the bison during mating season, except for when making observations from the safety of a vehicle.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
July happens to overlap with the animal's mating season - the "peak breeding" period where testosterone levels among bulls are heightened, Jennifer Barfield, the scientific lead at Colorado's Laramie Foothills Bison Conservation Herd, said.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
"To me, the differences in sexual dimorphism among populations of beluga whales could indicate that mating systems also vary, and this is something we are currently working on," said O'Corry-Crowe.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026
I don’t think mating and infatuation and friendships and closeness would occur if our faces didn’t work that way.”
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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