jungle
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As a young man, by his account, he smuggled diamonds, oversaw coconut plantations, dynamited fish, captained schooners and hunted killer cannibals in the New Guinea jungle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
He was arrested a year later during an overnight raid on a jungle hideout.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Built on a jungle island roughly 85 miles north of the equator, Singapore is no stranger to cicadas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Okuda also once crossed a jungle to meet leftist guerrillas in the Philippines when he ran Toyota's local operations there in the early 1970s, Bloomberg News reported.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Alexander dangled from the musket as if it were part of a jungle gym, while Beowulf was perched on the man’s head, wrestling vigorously with the hat.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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For those whose husbands fought for the British in the jungles of places like Malaya and Borneo in the1950s and 60s time is now running out.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
A large military transport plane carrying Colombian troops crashed Monday in a forested part of the country’s southern jungles, officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
"We are homeless, hiding in jungles, and living between life and death," said the 40-year-old.
From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025
Many made the treacherous journey through the jungles of the Darien Gap before setting up camp in a park near the Perkins K-8 school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2025
The Scalp Ceremony lay to rest the Japanese souls in the green humid jungles, and it satisfied the female giant who fed on the dreams of warriors.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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