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beetle

[beet-l] / ˈbit l /
















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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

Buglife said animals including the Straw Belle, which now only survives at up to two sites in Surrey, and one of the UK's rarest insect, the hazel pot beetle, stand to benefit from the project.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

Japanese red elder plants protect their own survival by dropping fruits that contain Heterhelus beetle larvae.

From Science Daily Mar. 12, 2026

A fragment of beetle was sticking to her lower lip, and there was no expression at all in her black button eyes.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

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

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

Plump, dewlapped Judge Caverly beetled through his spectacles in amazement at the couple, said something secret.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yes, We’ll battle for our own true flag, We’ll fight for every star; In town, on plain, or beetled crag, Our cause we’ll thunder far.

From Our Battery The Journal of Company B, 1st O.V.A. by Cutter, Orlando P.

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




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