frog
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A frog that became an internet sensation because of its trademark squeaky defensive call has been added to a global list of species at high risk of extinction.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Preserved within the cave were fossils belonging to 12 bird species and four frog species, offering a rare snapshot of a world that existed hundreds of thousands of years before humans reached the islands.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
Drake is the frog that’s been struck by lightning.
From Salon ● May 21, 2026
And as for the showstopping pelican, the frog erupts out of its beak right on cue, a moment that indeed inspires a round of laughter and childlike awe.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
I stare into it, see a frog watching us from its hiding spot between the reeds before it plops back down to hide under the surface of the water.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
A cast member carries a box of chocolate frogs through the train.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
I was in the chorus and in plays, and I worked pushing a cart with dead frogs to biology classes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Researchers from Australia and New Zealand have uncovered the remains of ancient birds and frogs that lived around 1 million years ago, including a previously unknown relative of the iconic kākāpō.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
Scientists have long posited the earliest water animals to transition to land had amphibious tadpole features, going through a metamorphosis akin to that of today's frogs.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
“That’s where the frogs came from,” finished Joe.
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
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
Crisp autumn weather had come to Washington, and Harry Truman caught a cold that frogged his throat at times.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among the cargo were several cases of Stanley's favorite Madeira and a frogged coat which he intended to wear when the white Pasha was sighted.
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
I hope no aesthetic devotee of the fly-rod will lay down the book in disgust when I confess to a weakness for frogging.
From Woodcraft by George Washington Sears
