frog
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A frog that became an internet sensation because of its trademark squeaky defensive call has been added to a global list of species at high risk of extinction.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Preserved within the cave were fossils belonging to 12 bird species and four frog species, offering a rare snapshot of a world that existed hundreds of thousands of years before humans reached the islands.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
Drake is the frog that’s been struck by lightning.
From Salon ● May 21, 2026
A few steps away, an artist sat ready to sketch digital portraits, reimagining guests as Pepe, the wide-eyed frog behind the one of industry’s most popular memecoins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
A frog poked its head up, blinked a few times, and disappeared.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
And like many frogs, even its appeal can become a threat, with some species targeted for the pet trade.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
I was in the chorus and in plays, and I worked pushing a cart with dead frogs to biology classes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Scientists have long posited the earliest water animals to transition to land had amphibious tadpole features, going through a metamorphosis akin to that of today's frogs.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Dagit said they recently found newt egg masses for the first time in years, as well as a few adult newts and many frogs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
“That’s where the frogs came from,” finished Joe.
From "Hopping Mad (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #4)" by Franklin W. Dixon
Crisp autumn weather had come to Washington, and Harry Truman caught a cold that frogged his throat at times.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dressed up in an elaborate frogged coat and sword, he was honored by budding Novelist Fanny Burney, who praised him as a "lyon of lyons."
From Time Magazine Archive
As a Cathedral Dean he wears four frogged buttons on his cuff There are six buttons on his cutaway coat.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Windsor with his good wife and the Prince of Wales he drove through the rain in a landau drawn by six perfectly matched greys mounted by postillions in scarlet coats frogged with gold.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wore narrow cotton trousers, black heelless slippers, and a frogged Chinese smock.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
When it came to clothing he allowed himself extraordinary freedom, the frogging on uniforms or lace on a dress sketched in thick impasto rather than being laboriously defined.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2015
And her young protégé Chris Van Hollen hails from the same state as Hoyer — Maryland — complicating any lea- frogging.
From Time ● Dec. 18, 2013
The film has it more or less right: a dark blue coat with silver frogging and braided epaulettes, partnered with skintight white breeches.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2012
Hence the nod to military influences — the Burberry heritage — presented as a much slimmer, belted jacket or a cardigan fastened with military frogging.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2011
But John—to my mind coarser—was doing his own frogging.
From Joy in the Morning by Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman
