beetle
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It cited persistently weak wood markets, difficulties with log supply related to wildfires and the wood-boring mountain pine beetle, as well as the U.S. duties and tariff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The newly established beetle genus Luffy was not given its name simply as a playful reference.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
This beetle has prominent white bands of hair on its elytra and across much of its body.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Others include the adonis blue butterfly, the armed nomad bee and the red-tailed mason bee, the shining pot beetle and the large scabious mining bee.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
The book was entirely too special-looking: a hardback bound in linen cloth the color of a pomegranate, a gold beetle embossed on the front with flecks that sparkled when you tilted the book.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
At barely more than five feet tall, and with a bushy white beard and beetled brow, magician James “The Amazing” Randi resembles nothing so much as an angry elf.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2015
Since quantities of U.S. nursery stock are grown in the most beetled area of New Jersey, the insects would soon have infested the whole U.S. but for a firm Federal quarantine.
From Time Magazine Archive
England was impressed by rugged, eloquent Mr. W. Benjamin Disraeli noticed Webster's "fine brow, lofty, broad, and beetled, deepset eyes."
From Time Magazine Archive
Napoleon, at the Pyramids, thrust one hand over his diaphragm, thickened his neck, beetled his brows, said: "Men, from the summits of these Pyramids 40 centuries look down upon you."
From Time Magazine Archive
In a deep rocker before them sat a heavy-set man whose piercing black eyes beetled forth from under bushy eyebrows.
From The Social Gangster by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
This beetling between England and Ireland would be repeated throughout his life.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2017
From almost anywhere in La Rinconada, you look up and you see her: La Bella Durmiente, Sleeping Beauty, an enormous glacier beetling above the town.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015
His unusual actorly physiognomy—the ruddy, transparent skin, the bulky but far from graceless body, the beetling blond eyebrows—lent itself to all manner of physical and gestural shape-shifting.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2014
Each looked like a character the other might have drawn, Maurice with his fireplug body and beetling brows and Robert with his shock of Wild Thing hair.
From Slate ● May 9, 2012
Clive Pike, to my left, eyes beetling bigger than humanly possible, g-force ribbling his face.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
