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crow

[kroh] / kroʊ /


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That’s 28 miles as the crow flies, but our route, with a detour for lunch in Cuyama, swelled the journey to more than 100 miles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Perhaps the same will be true with “Obsession”; Curry Barker’s copycats will try and fail to interpret the trials of dating when personality is a facade, and I’ll be left eating crow.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

Mbappe had left, the three Lamine Yamals had long since shot the crow.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

Most microraptors were quite small, with some species reaching only about the size of a crow.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026

The crow resembled more a humpy ball with straggling tail feathers, feathers as wispy and disordered as Gwystyl’s cobwebby hair.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

Made by the stop-motion animation studio behind 2009 hit "Coraline," "Wildwood" follows a young girl who must venture into an enchanted forest after her brother is whisked away by crows.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

Amid the many animal metaphors that invariably occupy reactions to my predictions, a dominant theme are dogs and crows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Scavenger animals such as possums, red foxes and crows can be exposed to the virus while devouring the carcasses of infected birds.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

“Welcome to Fobes Ranch… a truly extraordinary piece of California mountain history,” the listing crows.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

A murder of crows had gathered on one of the trees, cackling and flapping.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

Alone, with no human company, he thought of nearby creatures as his little crew.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Australia is also sending a Cessna Citation aircraft as a guide plane as well as 20 personnel, including pilots, flight crew and paramedics.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

Stunt coordinator Roy Taylor, center, with Clark and other crew members.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

"The reason for, I guess, the relatively slow pace is that we need to train quite a few hundred crew then do signalling work at Queen Street station in Cardiff," said Price.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

What if the potato crew left before I got back?

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

“Of course we’re going to do it at Fort Hood,” Hegseth crowed.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

“I don’t think that I will ever make a serious mistake on the stock market for the rest of my life,” crowed Granville.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

“Exquisite and tranquil lands perfect for hiking, horseback riding, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, and more,” the listing crowed.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025

Ada Carrillo, one of the devout who crowed the basilica this week, said she unites all of Mexico, transcending political, geographic and class divides.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025

Snuffy Ledoux crowed and clucked and cheeped; Amarante Cordova brayed like a mule.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

A.I. company CEOs, employee whistleblowers and industry boosters can’t stop crowing about the dangers posed by the products they’re rushing to create.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

Foghorn also gets one of the film’s best zingers, crowing that Acme is “a company of family values that values its family of companies.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

But the deal he’s now crowing about ensures only that the U.S and Iran will talk about new nuclear limits.

From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2026

It was first to publicly announce an end to the exchange with Israel and avoided crowing about the downing of the Apache as it had when other American aircraft were shot down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

Spiders flee before the Basilisk, for it is their mortal enemy, and the Basilisk flees only from the crowing of the rooster, which is fatal to it.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling


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