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rex

[reks, reks] / rɛks, rɛks /


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With it, he sets out to kill the neighborhood T. rex.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

They and the other dinosaurs — a T. rex, an armored ankylosaurus, a sight-gag-worthy giant snake — adapt to the 20th century as comfortably as coyotes, skulking through backyards in search of prey.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

They then spent a further three years documenting and reconstructing the T. rex back in the lab.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

One of the world's most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons, nicknamed "Gus," was showcased Wednesday at Sotheby's auction house in New York ahead of its sale later this month.

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

The notable exception being the Tyrannosaurus rex, which was found by Barnum Brown in 1902.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

In the meantime the Grecian army receives loss on loss, and is half destroyed by a pestilence into the bargain:- "Quicquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi."

From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden

On his refusing this honour, Mary wrote, or caused to be written, the following lines in Latin and French:   Sunt comites, ducesque alii; sunt denique reges;   Sethom dominum sit satis esse mihi.

From The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott

How mad they are, how furious, and upon small occasions, rash and inconsiderate in their proceedings, how they dote, every page almost will witness, ———delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.

From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Certainly German progress shows that the Germans can have no ground to quote: “Quicquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi,” of their Emperor.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Price Collier

The crine profuso and barba demissa of the reges crinitos, as the Merovingians were called, are often referred to by ancient chroniclers.

From Travels through France and Italy by T. (Tobias) Smollett




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