frog
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Suddenly, the frog jumped out of the pot.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
As a result, a frog that had been regularly seen and documented for decades never received a scientific name of its own.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
The school says that caxys is ancient Greek for ribbit, or the sound a frog makes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
But it is the mining industry that is currently threatening the desert rain frog and its exceptional habitat.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 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
Many diamond frogs live in forests that are becoming increasingly fragmented by deforestation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
By determining which frogs belong to which species and mapping where they occur, the researchers have also created a stronger scientific basis for conservation in Madagascar, where many forests are rapidly disappearing.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
It’s not clear when the trafficked animals might join the roughly 12,000 turtles, frogs, octopuses, penguins, sharks and other sea creatures currently on public display.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
He spent more than two weeks watching the young frogs "eat everything that moved".
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
We played B-ball, caught frogs and fished by the creek, climbed trees and stuff.
From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman
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
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
And, being superfluous, I withdrew mentally to a canoe in a lonely lake and went frogging.
From Joy in the Morning by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
