butterfly
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Ms. Williams delights in the paradoxes of butterfly evolution, including monarch caterpillars’ calibrated resistance to milkweed toxins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Scenic painter Miriam Hellmann was the skillful hand behind the mural’s final product: an image of a giant, bright orange poppy, a butterfly and a peacock, along with floral and faunal symbols.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Great Comp Garden, in St Mary's Platt, near Sevenoaks, Kent, said that it hosts about 25% of the UK's entire butterfly species, as 16 of them are based at the site.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
The gardens said that since the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme began in 1976, overall butterfly abundance has dropped by nearly 20%.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
“Well, I’ll be. I like that. Like a butterfly, huh? Well, I’ll be.”
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
Like the fragile butterflies that flitter around Alicent after Helaena’s death, she was too good for all of this nonsense.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Skubal made no apologies about the butterflies he was feeling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The butterflies never go away, Dalton said, and an adrenaline rush right before a physically demanding stunt is inevitable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Butterfly Conservation's Kate Merry said it was too early to know whether recent warm weather would result in a strong year for butterflies.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
My butterflies have been flapping about all day in anticipation of seeing him, like they’ve been rehearsing for a performance of The Nutcracker.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
“The shucked abalone is trimmed, butterflied, and thwacked lightly with a mallet.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
My wife loved the bronzino, served whole, deboned and butterflied.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2022
The butterflied grilled perch recipe is inspired by the chef Sergio Peñuelas, from Nayarit, in Mexico, and his pescado zarandeado.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2022
His Lincoln Logs is a butterflied frank layered with cream cheese, a version that sort of splits the difference between the classic sandwich and a Seattle dog.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2021
Cattle carcasses, flayed and butterflied, flitted past the wide observation window.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
“I came back to butterflying out of the blue - a childhood passion rekindled nine years ago at a butterfly gathering in the Blue Mountains.”
From Washington Times ● Jul. 24, 2016
Unlike the pursuit of birding, butterflying takes place at a civilized hour because butterflies don’t come out until the day warms to at least 60 degrees.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 9, 2016
Jazmin starts by butterflying a chicken thigh with a deft stroke of her knife.
From Salon ● May 21, 2012
Every year sees the appearance of fictional contrivances that pause briefly as larvae in book form before butterflying their way onto the screen.
From Time Magazine Archive
But I like the Professor; and his philosophic views have an interest for me that they evidently 56do not possess for natures which will be always butterflying about.
From Happy-Thought Hall by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
