spur
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The internet intelligence company Spur investigates residential proxy networks and keeps a list of all of their known internet locations, aka nodes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
The fossil is described on January 11 in the journal Current Biology along with several other specimens that were collected from the Richards Spur limestone cave system in Oklahoma.
From Science Daily • Jan. 11, 2024
Richards Spur contains many fossils of Captorhinus aguti—an iguana-size, lizardlike reptile with a pronounced overbite that Mooney describes as “cute, even chunky.”
From Science Magazine • Jan. 11, 2024
The piece of skin is one of countless traces of prehistoric life preserved in the Richards Spur limestone cave system near an oil seep in southwestern Oklahoma.
From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2024
I had read many Westerns, of course, doing research, and had even written several, had indeed won the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America three times for Western novels.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
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