crow
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The talking heads are all too willing to critique Hurts and others like Kyrie Irving and Angel Reese, only to eat crow each time they accomplish something on the field or on the court.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
"I like the fact that it is 'human crow meets golf caddy meets the Artful Dodger'. We're pretty happy with it," she joked about this year's outfits.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
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
Most microraptors were quite small, with some species reaching only about the size of a crow.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
She was trying to calm the crow, who was obviously terrified.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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The wind rustles the tree leaves and crows circle above, caw-cawing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
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
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
It isn’t until they reach downtown, just before the exit ramp to the highway, that Axel spots a few crows gathered on a phone wire.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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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
Aglok MacDonald says that many cast and crew members actually lost weight during the shoot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
It’s one of the few times I can remember all of my road crew coming out for a song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Investigators haven’t determined the cause of the fire, but a hazardous-material crew was on the scene due to the presence of a lithium-ion battery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
She spoke quietly, and the crew huddled nearer, caught in the net of her words.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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“Of course we’re going to do it at Fort Hood,” Hegseth crowed.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026
In one exchange, Kessler reminded Rapino that he had crowed during a 2011 call that Live Nation was bigger than all the promoters in the world combined.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
“This property has it all,” the listing crowed.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 2, 2026
"So much for being isolated," crowed the tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets earlier this week.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2025
Josie crowed beside him, launching a plastic basketball toward the hoop at the side of the pool.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Mr. Hilton is all for crowing about the size of the state’s economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 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
While crowing about its Pentagon projects, IonQ hasn’t highlighted that the majority of them weren’t funded in the last two federal budgets, Wolfpack says.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
A cock was crowing, a drawn-out, plaintive sound that seemed very close close by.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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