elephant
Example Sentences
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The elephant has three sides and one body.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026
But no one could ignore the elephant in the room.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
The island is also home to animals such as island foxes, spotted skunks and elephant seals.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
“Hundreds of thousands of pages of regulation, an army of regulators, and they can’t see plain-vanilla interest-rate risk. Truly they missed an elephant in the room,” Cochrane said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
The schoolchildren were utterly amazed by the elephant, and they loved to watch Karli doing his juggling tricks too.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
Vocabulary lists containing elephant
East Asia - Middle School
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East Asia - Introductory
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East Asia - High School
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