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nightingale

[nahyt-n-gayl, nahy-ting-] / ˈnaɪt nˌgeɪl, ˈnaɪ tɪŋ- /


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Through the years, she was often compared to her elder sister - who was revered as the "nightingale" of Bollywood and died in 2022 - but Bhosle built a distinct identity.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

Just as the familiar tune “In the Hall of the Mountain King” gradually builds speed “accelerando,” as the compositional notation is known, some birdsong does too, like that of the nightingale.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

I wonder if even Janet Malcolm might have given a pass to this devoted biographer and his own bow to a nightingale.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023

Animals have always come and gone, medieval wolves, later Keats’ nightingale, later still a rare wallaby, spotted bounding through the trees in spring 2019.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2020

“Jane, do you hear that nightingale singing in the wood? Listen!”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Grasshoppers, sand lizards, nightingales, and skylarks that are declining or threatened elsewhere have been found thriving in the city’s green spaces.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 2, 2022

Did the nightingales of Berkeley Square know about this?

From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2019

Knepp boasts the largest population in Britain of the Purple Emperor butterfly; nightingales, after years of decline, are nesting there in rising numbers.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2019

Ornithologists kept finding that birds that rely on insects for food were in trouble: eight in 10 partridges gone from French farmlands; 50 and 80 percent drops, respectively, for nightingales and turtledoves.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2018

Catelyn recognized Bryce Caron's nightingales, the Penrose quills, and Lord Estermont's sea turtle, green on green.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin




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