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grasshopper

[gras-hop-er] / ˈgræsˌhɒp ər /


NOUN
locust
Synonyms
STRONG


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Bernard Suits, a philosopher who focused on sports, disagreed, and he drew on Aesop’s fable of the ant and the grasshopper in his inventive rebuttal.

From The Wall Street Journal May 11, 2026

The researchers partnered with farmers in Senegal who regularly face outbreaks of the Senegalese grasshopper.

From Science Daily Jan. 24, 2026

Whether you are a grasshopper or a bird or a human, if you start destroying the environment in which you live, then you are overpopulated.

From Salon Nov. 30, 2024

Ground-nesting birds, such as the diminutive grasshopper sparrow, are more elusive.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 13, 2023

Georgie caught a grasshopper, something practice had made him good at, and then let it go.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

Of the 1.3 million schoolchildren evacuated from cities to the countryside, Mr. Scott writes, many “resorted to eating grasshoppers, snakes, and stream crabs as well as tooth-cleaning powder, paint, and crayons.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Halpin added that people who might want to create a good habitat for grasshoppers should have a mixture of high and short grass.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

Among the more poignant moments, Charles laments the loss of wildlife at Highgrove, noting when he first moved in there nearly five decades ago he would hear cuckoos and see grasshoppers.

From Barron's Jan. 28, 2026

Even without locusts, grasshoppers already pose major challenges across the country.

From Science Daily Jan. 24, 2026

The llano was so quiet I could hear the drone of the grasshoppers and crickets in the grass.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya




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