kangaroo

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It didn’t help that her husband—who’d known Hoxha when the two men were students together in Paris—was found guilty by a kangaroo court of plotting to overthrow the government.

From The Wall Street Journal

Put another way, even those who are hauled before a kangaroo court are sometimes guilty as charged.

From Washington Post

But Ms. Belgam painted a picture of the park as a vital ecosystem, home to thriving bighorn sheep; kangaroo rats, which can survive without drinking water; and pupfish, endemic to saline waterways.

From New York Times

He’s basically the size of Australia’s largest marsupial, thus the nickname: kangaroo spots.

From Washington Post

In fact, as I showed in a recently published study, breast cancer is a threat across nearly all mammalian lineages, with cases found in creatures ranging from kangaroos and koalas to wombats and water buffalos.

From Scientific American