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ark

[ahrk] / ɑrk /


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Several British zoos are setting up so-called ark populations of the glutinous snail, one of Europe's rarest species, using creatures bred in a back garden in Ceredigion.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Kircher, the authors add, even claimed to have invented another music-making ark, more powerful and capacious—and secret—available “only for princes and worthy friends.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The clergy specifically placed the handles of the tall ark at the bottom, so that even preschoolers would be able to open it.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

Let me explain, and at the risk of coming across like a guy building an ark in the desert, offer options for adding dividends at a time of relative scarcity.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

I follow her gaze to a team of people struggling to carry their boat, which is a not-so-mini version of Noah’s ark.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

I understand the argument that zoos are now arks, safe places where endangered animals and genetic material are preserved in a world where thousands of species are hurtling toward extinction.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2025

There’s nothing wrong with Indiana Jones’ “discovery” of lost arks or hidden tombs, or the five billion other pyramids-and-papyrus-scroll tales sold in books, films and television.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2022

The restoration is addressing the woodwork, gilding, Torah arks and bimahs, or altars.

From New York Times ● May 4, 2022

Umbrellas, if not arks, are needed in the Pacific Northwest, while in the Rockies snow shovels are gathering cobwebs.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2021

I am no connoisseur in Dutch dolls, nor Noah's arks, madam, although modern society presents us with something very like both; but I concluded that the prices were not exorbitant.

From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever




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