stalk
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“Please don’t stalk me,” he added, just before he broke into a tap dance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Once the plant decides to bloom, it channels its entire reserve of accumulated sugar upward into the stalk in a matter of days.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
They stalk WhatsApp groups, track flights like anxious parents and leave work meetings to get their fix of the sweet, seasonal delicacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
These organisms had U-shaped bodies and were anchored to the seafloor by a stalk.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 6, 2026
The stalk is your brain stem, which plugs into your spinal cord.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
It had large eyes extending from stalks at the front of its body, along with a segmented skeleton and jointed limbs attached beneath its narrow frame.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Sally Wadsworth, chair of Benfield Wildlife and Conservation Group, says some areas of grass are kept longer so that the females can crawl up the stalks for mating.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
It looks like charcoal, but the black briquettes are actually made from plant waste: millet and sesame stalks, palm fronds and cobs.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
It attracted bankers, tourists and street vendors, who could stroll through the stalks before they were harvested.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
“Aw, Daisy,” I said as I dried my face on the towel, “corn doesn’t even grow that tall. If it did, you’d have to cut the stalks down with an axe to gather the ears.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
He then stalked San Francisco’s steep streets waving a medicine bottle full of gold dust.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
In New York, where the firm is located, people are only eligible for those if they are being stalked by a partner or ex-partner.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
In writer-director Adrian Chiarella’s “Leviticus,” gay teens in small-town Australia are stalked by a shape-shifting monster that takes the form of whomever they most desire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Chisora, partly outside of the ropes, beat the count at eight, eyes glazed, as Wilder stalked forward.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
Roz backed away as the polar bear stalked toward her.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
The Millers and their children moved from their Virginia home into military housing last year amid what the White House has described as a campaign of stalking, doxing and threats against the family.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
They highlighted cases of police misuse elsewhere, such as officers stalking romantic partners, and explained how Flock’s system can create “heat maps,” showing where a vehicle has been over time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
A man was arrested this week near Kris Jenner’s home in Calabasas on suspicion of stalking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Prosecutor Anisa Alrubaie told the court Jerome had been made subject to the stalking prevention order relating to Piper on 21July 2022.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Not stalking him, peeping around corners and things like that.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
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