butterfly
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The schoolgirl was named a Games MVP on Sunday to cap an extraordinary showing that saw her scorch to gold in the 200m butterfly and do the 200m-400m individual medley double.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
This year's theme, Nature for the Next Generation, includes talks on subjects ranging from seabird restoration and woodland resilience to butterfly monitoring in Sark and citizen science projects.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Animals expected to benefit include native British species such as brown hares, hedgehogs, great crested newts, common toads and the Small Heath butterfly, a spokesperson for the company said.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Several years ago, the Danish journalist Lea Korsgaard decided she’d try to see all 64 native butterfly species in Denmark within a single year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
When Mom and Dad leave, Malia stares up at me with wide eyes, her butterfly rocket frozen in midair.
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
Fresh off the heels of Thom Browne’s New York Fashion Week presentation, where models and dancers embodied bugs and butterflies, the designer exchanged emails with Tyler Matthew Oyer about his creative process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
For spring 2027, you created this fantastical garden populated by insects, beginning with a chrysalis and ending with the emergence of butterflies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Ms. Korsgaard traces her own interest in butterflies to a lesser-known figure, the Danish theologian Ole Jensen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The team found 111 relevant studies involving butterflies in Bangladesh.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
After about thirty minutes of pure joy, romping in the grass and chasing butterflies, he heard Abby whistle for him.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
“The shucked abalone is trimmed, butterflied, and thwacked lightly with a mallet.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Then there’s butterflied branzino, one side painted red, the other green, with sauces coaxed from guajillo mayonnaise and tomatillo and serrano, respectively.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2022
For some dishes, a pounded-out cutlet, butterflied breast or a thin-sliced chicken breast may be the way to go.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 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
Through the open doorway, I caught a glimpse of line after line of cattle carcasses, butterflied with their ribs exposed like spread fingers.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Our solution came in a well-tested technique for evenly roasting chickens: spatchcocking, or butterflying, which involves cutting out and discarding a bird’s backbone so it can be spread open and flattened.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
For some butterfly watchers, even a gentle netting is too disturbing, and they advocate butterflying with special binoculars that feature a short focal point.
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
He came butterflying and frog-kicking down the final lap of the 220-yard breaststroke race to win.
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
