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
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
McQuilkin said the struggling gull population reflects broader ecological problems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025
The hands were extended, slightly off the horizontal at a faint angle, like a gull tilting into the wind.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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Their harmonies intertwine like two gulls in flight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
"Do people like gulls, there's a bit of doubt... should gulls be in Worcester? Should they be away from the coast? They are - and they are because of us," Carpenter said.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 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
Skuas are large brown seabirds related to gulls that live mainly in polar and subpolar regions.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 12, 2026
One of them was watching a flock of birds gulls, lifting and eddying and landing on the bridge railing beyond.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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And they are easily gulled by simple tricks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
The issue is not so much what AI can do, but how users can be gulled into thinking what it can do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2024
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
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
He and his minister were alternately gulled by France and by the emperor, and the net result of all their activity was bankruptcy and discontent at home and ever-frustrated hopes abroad.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
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
Before the war he had little to lose, but fishing in troubled waters and gulling the people with anting-anting and the “signs in the clouds” proved to be a profitable occupation to many.
From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John
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