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frog

[frog, frawg] / frɒg, frɔg /
NOUN
jumping amphibian
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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

On Monday evening, Trump posted on social media an image of a protester dressed in a frog costume holding a sign that said, “First They Came for the Algae.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

The final section of amphibians, insects and fish, has: the Atlantic salmon, the basking shark, the buff-tailed bumblebee, the common frog, the Emperor dragonfly, and the marsh fritillary butterfly.

From BBC Jun. 2, 2026

Drake is the frog that’s been struck by lightning.

From Salon May 21, 2026

Pearl, true to her word, handed Lexie a typed-up essay the next week—the story of the frog prince, from the point of view of the frog.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

I don’t understand why kids who are still catching frogs and wearing Yoda pajamas need to be traveling to expensive out of state tournaments like they’re AC Milan.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

"They're predators – they take fish and frogs, but our biggest concern is that they feed on mammals," he said.

From BBC Jun. 9, 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

Its ecosystem included frogs, lizards, turtles, and mammals such as Patagorhynchus pascuali, a semi aquatic monotreme related to modern echidnas and platypuses.

From Science Daily May 29, 2026

There was a fish tank in one of the third-grade classrooms, and the frogs would be put there until someone figured out where they came from.

From "Hopping Mad (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #4)" by Franklin W. Dixon

As a Cathedral Dean he wears four frogged buttons on his cuff There are six buttons on his cutaway coat.

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

Among the cargo were several cases of Stanley's favorite Madeira and a frogged coat which he intended to wear when the white Pasha was sighted.

From Time Magazine Archive

Crisp autumn weather had come to Washington, and Harry Truman caught a cold that frogged his throat at times.

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

The frogging fleet included two canoes, that of young John Dudley who was doing his vacation with me, and my own.

From Joy in the Morning by Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman




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