gull
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The lab report concluded that flying debris from the tail section mangled a great black-backed gull whose wing was found on a rooftop with other debris.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Birds including the curlew, nightjar, dipper, lesser black-backed gull and red grouse are also named.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
The incident unfolded when the low-flying gull got caught in the path of a clearance kick by Istanbul Yurdum Spor's goalkeeper during an amateur playoff match against Mevlanakapi Guzelhisar, a club official told AFP Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
Earlier in 2024, scientists detected H5N1 in a kelp gull and two skuas that were found dead in January and February.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 12, 2026
A gull on an invisible wire attached through space dragged.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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He also made the case for other intelligent and "under-appreciated" animals, such as foxes and gulls to feature on the new series of banknotes.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
In a recent expedition to Antarctica, new cases were discovered in Antarctic cormorants, kelp gulls, Adelie and gentoo penguins, and Antarctic fur seals, Neira told AFP.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
The lead sentence in the Los Angeles Times story was, “Playing in conditions more suitable for sea gulls and ducks.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025
Instead, the main agents of colonization appear to be gulls, geese, and shorebirds, which carried seeds in their digestive systems or droppings.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2025
The gulls scatter to the dock posts and wood pilings at the water’s edge.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
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And they are easily gulled by simple tricks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
It is inconceivable that none of them would have had contact with friends and relatives in the Philippines who might have been gulled by the American disinformation.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2024
Notwithstanding Lewis’ churlish dismissal, the truth is that millions of innocent people, many of them small investors gulled by narratives like Bankman-Fried’s, have lost their life savings in cryptocurrency scams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2023
An assassin prevented Americans from proving, by spurning Long’s presidential pretenses, that they were less easily gulled than Long assumed.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2022
But the public were not to be gulled; that same evening the stock fell to 640, and the next day to 540.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
The city alleged that Siemens had pulled a bait-and-switch, gulling the city into signing a contract lacking that hard-and-fast guarantee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2022
Documenting a lifetime spent gulling audiences and pursuing con men, the directors Justin Weinstein and Tyler Measom have produced a jaunty, jovial portrait with a surprising sting in its tail.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2015
It also has the potential to massively chill free speech by gulling ISPs and websites into either pulling down totally legal material when faced with any sort of complaint, but also proactively policing free expression.
From Time ● Sep. 4, 2014
The diction was very poor, the gulling scenes rather disappointing for exactly the reasons Michael Billington outlines, and the whole thing could do with some serious cutting.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2012
And from whence dost thou know That I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service?
From The Piccolomini by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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