twig
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The words “California Republic” were painted in black ink with the chewed end of a twig.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Soon enough, trees everywhere were showing blotchy, mottled, yellowed leaves and suffering from twig dieback and sparse foliage.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
In 1960, during her first year at Gombe, Goodall observed a chimpanzee she called David Greybeard carefully strip a twig of leaves and use it to root out tasty termites from a mound.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2025
He then used that stripped, bent twig to spoon the termites into his mouth.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025
A twig snapped so loudly, it roused you and Muthu.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
The “Odyssey” actor filed her petition a day after LaBeouf’s ex-girlfriend FKA twigs brought her latest lawsuit against the former Disney Channel star to a close.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Nearby is one of the movie’s crudely constructed stick figures — a reminder that sometimes a few twigs and some twine are all it takes to lodge an image permanently in the culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Some create burrows in the ground, others use cavities in wood such as tree hollows or fallen branches, and some nest inside plant stems or small existing holes in twigs.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026
In Vietnam, herons cast twigs in ponds like fly-fishermen to lure prey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
She picked up a bundle of twigs and grass and reached up into the branches of a tree and brought down a tangled mass.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
However, he admitted he - along with scientists and advisers - should have "twigged" the seriousness posed by the disease earlier than he did.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2023
"Nobody should be watching those press conferences!" she said emphatically, when she twigged to what I'd been up to.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2020
Then, eventually, they twigged that we were interested in biodiversity, flora, and fauna, and people started coming in with chameleons.
From The Verge ● Aug. 28, 2018
Many people on Wall Street twigged to this a good while ago.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 27, 2017
If Pamela really is the culprit, the evidence was right in front of us, and nobody twigged to it.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
The results of Archie's twigging were very apparent; notably the golden-oak rocking-chair, the "chiffoneer" surmounted by the bronze lady with a spear.
From Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
You are right," said Smith, "I—was twigging you again.
From Captivating Mary Carstairs by Raymond Moreau Crosby
He and Bob knew they would be in for a certain amount of twigging because of their defeat, but he knew how to take it in good part.
From The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards by Gerald Breckenridge
Big Bob was no less inquisitive than the others, despite his twigging of Frank for his curiosity.
From The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition by Gerald Breckenridge
“One night, returnin home to bed, I walk’d through Pim-li-co, And, twigging of the Palass, sed, ‘I’m Jones and In-i-go.’
From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by John Ashton
