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rex

[reks, reks] / rɛks, rɛks /


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About 66 million years ago, a large dinosaur, possibly a T. rex or Nanotyrannus, swallowed a bird.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

“Run, Denise!” is the kind of unhelpful remark, delivered by Greg when his wife is already well aware that a T. rex is bearing down on her, that defines the dialogue.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

They and the other dinosaurs — a T. rex, an armored ankylosaurus, a sight-gag-worthy giant snake — adapt to the 20th century as comfortably as coyotes, skulking through backyards in search of prey.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

But it took a further three years in the lab to piece the T. rex back together.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

She let out a huge toothy yawn that would’ve scared a T. rex, then turned in a circle and flopped down so hard the ground shook.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

Of Master Richard's speaking with the King's Grace: and how he was taken for it Et nunc reges intelligite: erudimini qui judicatis terram.

From The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary by Robert Hugh Benson

On his refusing this honour, Mary wrote, or caused to be written, the following lines in Latin and French:   Sunt comites, ducesque alii; sunt denique reges;   Sethom dominum sit satis esse mihi.

From The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott

Vergil's own words would imply that his early effort centered about Aeneas' wars in Italy; the sixth Eclogue, Cum canerem reges et proelia, is rather explicit on this point.

From Vergil A Biography by Tenney Frank

How mad they are, how furious, and upon small occasions, rash and inconsiderate in their proceedings, how they dote, every page almost will witness, ———delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.

From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In the meantime the Grecian army receives loss on loss, and is half destroyed by a pestilence into the bargain:- "Quicquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi."

From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden




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