grasshopper
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Their farms regularly suffer severe losses from Senegalese grasshopper swarms.
From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2026
"If someone reported us, we'd pick up the food and run, like a grasshopper," he said.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2023
Ground-nesting birds, such as the diminutive grasshopper sparrow, are more elusive.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2023
There’s a touch of the surreal about his work: Disparate characters and illogical sizes are grouped together, as when a hugely scaled grasshopper faces a smiling dog.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 12, 2023
After the monkeys had all disappeared, it got so still around there you could have heard a grasshopper walking.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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