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frog

[frog, frawg] / frɒg, frɔg /
NOUN
jumping amphibian
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The births follow the zoo's success last November in breeding the Atewa slippery frog, another critically endangered species from the same forest, which had also never been bred in captivity before.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Sofiyka eats her semolina from a green bowl shaped like a frog.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

OpenAI’s Dots agents, which also launched last month, let users pick from fuzzy characters like Todd the frog, digital pets or custom-designed avatars.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

Suddenly, the frog jumped out of the pot.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

The swamp’s stillness was disturbed only by the croaking of a frog and the splash as it leaped into a puddle nearby.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

Fifteen critically endangered frogs have hatched at London Zoo, which says it marks the first time the species has been bred in captivity.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

I pivoted back to the overlook, where a beautiful white ibis was hunting for frogs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

It houses diverse wildlife, according to the Lake Chippewa Flowage Resort Association, such as frogs and salamanders, and - like the rest of the lake and its shoreline - is legally protected by state laws.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

By determining which frogs belong to which species and mapping where they occur, the researchers have also created a stronger scientific basis for conservation in Madagascar, where many forests are rapidly disappearing.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

“But the floor is made out of metal grating, and anyone who looked up would have seen them. Plus, it would be really hard to carry all the frogs up here!”

From "Hopping Mad (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #4)" by Franklin W. Dixon

From Windsor with his good wife and the Prince of Wales he drove through the rain in a landau drawn by six perfectly matched greys mounted by postillions in scarlet coats frogged with gold.

From Time Magazine Archive

Crisp autumn weather had come to Washington, and Harry Truman caught a cold that frogged his throat at times.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dressed up in an elaborate frogged coat and sword, he was honored by budding Novelist Fanny Burney, who praised him as a "lyon of lyons."

From Time Magazine Archive

As a Cathedral Dean he wears four frogged buttons on his cuff There are six buttons on his cutaway coat.

From Time Magazine Archive

The strange thing about them was their clothing, for the boys were dressed in the straight trousers and the frogged and braided jackets of the Chinese.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

When it came to clothing he allowed himself extraordinary freedom, the frogging on uniforms or lace on a dress sketched in thick impasto rather than being laboriously defined.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2015

And her young protégé Chris Van Hollen hails from the same state as Hoyer — Maryland — complicating any lea- frogging.

From Time ● Dec. 18, 2013

The film has it more or less right: a dark blue coat with silver frogging and braided epaulettes, partnered with skintight white breeches.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2012

Hence the nod to military influences — the Burberry heritage — presented as a much slimmer, belted jacket or a cardigan fastened with military frogging.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2011

The young men looked handsomely in their gala uniforms of white trousers and gloves, blue coats, and caps set off with plenty of frogging and brass buttons.

From Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney


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