scarecrow

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The case centers on a two-story yellow house in Norfolk, purchased for $137,000 in 2020, which on Thursday was decorated for fall with mums on the front porch and a scarecrow on the lawn.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

The researchers focused on two key regulators of cell division in Arabidopsis -- proteins called short-root and scarecrow that, together, prompt dividing root cells to make the switch.

From Science Daily • Feb. 9, 2024

On X, some of the rapper’s fans said that the figure “looks like a fusion of Lil Wayne, Steph Curry, & Bob Marley” and likened it to a scarecrow.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2023

As you might expect, along the way, Dorothy finds friends in a scarecrow, tin man and cowardly lion.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2022

Longstreet turned to ride on, and then the voice registered and he looked back: a grinning Fremantle, hat held high like the cloth on the arm of a scarecrow, bony, ridiculous.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara