frog
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Suddenly, the frog jumped out of the pot.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
In this case, combining 19th-century museum specimens with observations of living frog populations allowed researchers to determine that Pristimantis milpe deserved recognition as a distinct species.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
The race to save 26 frog species in Australia.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The other is an extinct species of tree frog in Florida, according to the museum’s news release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Jack went into his garage and pulled out an old plastic baby pool that looked like a frog and dragged it into the backyard.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
I pivoted back to the overlook, where a beautiful white ibis was hunting for frogs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Most diamond frogs look brown at first, but several species have vivid markings that remain hidden until the frogs move.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Researchers compared genetic information from old collections with DNA from newly collected frogs.
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
Weird stuff is happening that can’t be explained by the laws of nature, in which case our planet might be in store for a global meltdown full of crazy lava explosions and plagues of frogs.
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
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
The strange thing about them was their clothing, for the boys were dressed in the straight trousers and the frogged and braided jackets of the Chinese.
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 Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
