camel
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“Just look at her on that camel, she was having a blast and still appreciating good food.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The Afar region of north-eastern Ethiopia is one of the hottest and driest places on Earth, where nomads often lead camel caravans carrying salt through the desert.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Among the video’s more surreal moments are depictions of Trump riding a camel through the desert, traveling through India on a motorcycle, appearing as an anime-style warrior and sharing tacos with world leaders.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
Work paused frequently as workers uncovered thousands of fossils, including a 2-foot bison horn and camel shin bone, dating back to the Ice Age.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
A blue neon sign in the shape of a camel blinked off and on above a revolving door.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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In the south, most Arabs are Bedouins, mainly Sunni Muslims who descended from nomadic clans that roamed the Negev Desert herding camels and sheep.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
He has used giraffes, hippos, rhinos, camels and zebras, and now has both bisons and elephants at the Great Moscow Circus, which opened during the Soviet era.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
She rode camels in Egypt, cruised the Nile River and hugged the pillars at Stonehenge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Obviously, clambering up and down the dangerously steep pass, ferrying goods on horseback or by mule or — for a few wacky, experimental months in the mid-1850s, Army camels — wasn’t workable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The body of the caravan was forty tarpan horses, twenty camels, and twenty pack mules, all carrying goods first to Turfan, in westernmost China, then to Kashgar.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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