vulture
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Critics tend to debate whether she is a vulture or just losing her grasp on reality, but there’s no question she’s hit on a successful formula.
From Slate • Feb. 27, 2026
He places the stones on Tom’s lap, Ms. Kessler tells us, “and walks slowly around the room, waving a vulture feather in the air.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
Meanwhile the narrator’s financially devious husband appears as a vulture with “the brooding eye, the blood-tipped beak, the flabby folds of flesh” of a bird of prey.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
At Falconry Experience Wales, there is also hope that captive birds like Vinnie can help another species - the white-backed vulture.
From BBC • Aug. 25, 2025
“Not since that summer,” she says, and retreats with her vulture face and vulture fingernails into the redolent dark.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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