ark
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Several British zoos are setting up so-called ark populations of the glutinous snail, one of Europe's rarest species, using creatures bred in a back garden in Ceredigion.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Above the Torah ark in Ms. Wisse’s synagogue, an admonition is written in Hebrew: “Know before whom you stand.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Let me explain, and at the risk of coming across like a guy building an ark in the desert, offer options for adding dividends at a time of relative scarcity.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
Now it’s time to make it a tree ark, and not every species should make it aboard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
Maybe a Chicago sewer grate where there should have been a window, or a ship’s steam stack in place of the carved Torah ark.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
I understand the argument that zoos are now arks, safe places where endangered animals and genetic material are preserved in a world where thousands of species are hurtling toward extinction.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2025
There’s nothing wrong with Indiana Jones’ “discovery” of lost arks or hidden tombs, or the five billion other pyramids-and-papyrus-scroll tales sold in books, films and television.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2022
The restoration is addressing the woodwork, gilding, Torah arks and bimahs, or altars.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2022
Umbrellas, if not arks, are needed in the Pacific Northwest, while in the Rockies snow shovels are gathering cobwebs.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2021
Wright, obsolete perhaps as a trade name, has given many compounds, including Arkwright, a maker of bins, or arks as they were once called, Tellwright, a tile maker, and many others which need no interpretation.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
