ark
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Kircher, the authors add, even claimed to have invented another music-making ark, more powerful and capacious—and secret—available “only for princes and worthy friends.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The third room is the dry land that kids step onto when they disembark from the ark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 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
"The work we are doing, and zoos around Europe are doing, is really to be that lifeboat, to be that ark population."
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2025
After they all got off the ark and let the animals go is when it happened.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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
Fragments from these genetically distinct coral types would be placed in land tanks in Sarasota and West Palm Beach that serve as modern-day arks for the vulnerable sea creatures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
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
They did not stoop to a cottage or a bungalow, but figured entirely on such things as arks and the towers of Jericho.
From Hints to Pilgrims by Charles Stephen Brooks
