rooster
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Strewn about the messy stand are a freshly killed rooster, duck and goose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The intricate tattoos of leopards, a stag, a rooster, and a mythical half-lion and half-eagle creature on the woman's body shed light on an ancient warrior culture.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2025
Jefferson reasoned that Americans had never contracted to make King George III the main rooster — he could take his monarchy and stuff it.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2025
While he speaks to me from his home in Sierra Leone, a rooster crows in the background, punctuating his sentences like a barnyard hype man.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2025
A dusty Rhode Island red rooster who had wandered too far from his own farmyard crossed the road and Eddie hit him without running too far off the road.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
Nearby were soft-toy footballers resembling Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo, fluffy roosters in France polos and teddy bears in Spain kits.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
The gate is adorned with a sculpted round medallion of Oseguera’s trademark, two roosters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
A person, later identified as Carlos Romero, was found hiding inside a truck with seven roosters in it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2025
"Once those roosters and hens go down, you have no vaccine."
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2024
When young roosters were fed DDT, the testes made only 18 per cent of their normal growth; combs and wattles, dependent for their development upon the testicular hormone, were only a third the normal size.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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