seagull
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Nora resides among an assortment of odd-duck tenants, feeding daily breakfast to a punctual seagull she names Father Conway and finding secular outlets for her abiding curiosity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The seagull reportedly suffered a damaged wing but it was not immediately clear what happened to it after the match.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
Ross had been criticised on Wednesday after he delayed a vote on landmark justice reforms to raise concerns about the government's seagull summit.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025
Half an hour after an almost offensively poor Old Firm derby had ended - a slugfest in the bearpit - a seagull swooped down from above the Sandy Jardine stand at Ibrox.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2025
The emblem on the copyright page was nearly identical to the Bayside Press logo, but instead of a seagull there was a black bird.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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Landfills sometimes hire falconers to keep seagulls from carrying trash away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
A few of their cries could be heard above the seagulls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
It owes nothing to Chekhov — though there are seagulls — but much to a classically Russian sense of humor and a Chaplinesque ingenuity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
Strikes have led to rubbish piling up, with uncollected waste several feet high in some streets in the first few months, amid complaints of rats, foxes and seagulls tearing open plastic bags.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025
Barely ten feet away, seagulls strutted around, squawking, flapping their skinny wings, and picking at something in the grass.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
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