exotic
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An end to the exotic pet trade, he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Despite this, orangutans continue to be trafficked for sale as exotic pets and to private collectors.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Fractons, exotic quasiparticles previously predicted in quantum spin liquids using highly generalized gauge field theories, have now also appeared in simulations of a more realistic quantum solid-state model.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Messrs. Wells and Wellington said they hoped no one would think of their exotic names as “taxonomic vandalism.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
By far the most exotic cargo, however, was human.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Anytime I review a Ferrari, McLaren or Lamborghini, I can expect letters arguing that America’s Sports Car is the equal of any of the European exotics for half the cost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
Hofvendahl became passionate about gardening in Altadena, where he turned their double lot into an orchard, with more than 150 fruit trees, many of them exotics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
The python has been transferred to a specialist exotics centre where it is recovering.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2023
At the time it was groundbreaking, even radical, to photograph transgender people as regular folk, rather than as exotics or freaks or medical specimens, and rarer still for the lensman to be transgender.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
The exotics walked slowly back to the Midway.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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