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[reks, reks] / rɛks, rɛks /


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"Jodi" was initially exhibited as a juvenile T. rex at London's Frieze Masters international art fair in October 2023, before the Nanotyrannus genus was classified.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

The "Dueling Dinosaurs" discovery became crucial to the research published by Lindsay Zanno and James Napoli that classified Nanotyrannus as separate from T. rex.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Tyrannosaurus rex and Nanotyrannus lived alongside one another during the same geological period approximately 67 million years ago.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

A relatively small carnivore might have regarded a human as worthwhile prey, whereas an enormous hunter such as T. rex may have preferred much larger animals.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

He slams a plastic T. rex into his favorite fire truck-toy.

From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle

Virgil had now found in his own age a motive for the composition of that epic poem which it had been his boyish ambition to attempt,— Cum canerem reges et proelia.

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. Sellar

"Et nunc, reges, intelligite; erudimini, qui judicatis terram:" Understand now, ye kings of the earth; learn, ye who judge the world.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Hamilton Wright Mabie

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

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

The central emblem is that of the Trinity, with a "chronogram" indicating the year 1634 thus:—sInt DoMUs hUjUs pII reges nUtrItII regInae nUtrICes pIae.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Philip Walsingham Sergeant


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