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[stawk] / stɔk /




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The study reaffirms fears that many wolves are becoming dependent on cattle as a primary food source as it is easier to feed on slow-moving, fatty cows than stalk the state’s dwindling deer population.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

The city used an economic office to stalk dissidents in the U.K.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

These organisms had U-shaped bodies and were anchored to the seafloor by a stalk.

From Science Daily Apr. 6, 2026

This work requires stealth and sleepless nights to stalk poachers in the dark.

From BBC Dec. 28, 2025

I stalk out of rooms and storm down hallways and disappear into bathroom stalls.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

Sally Wadsworth, chair of Benfield Wildlife and Conservation Group, says some areas of grass are kept longer so that the females can crawl up the stalks for mating.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

It looks like charcoal, but the black briquettes are actually made from plant waste: millet and sesame stalks, palm fronds and cobs.

From Barron's Apr. 24, 2026

Stacks of wheat straws and corn stalks separated my village from the fields, where the growth was always a little sparser than we wanted it to be.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 13, 2026

Many of the fossils display unusual combinations of features, such as tentacles, stalks, attachment discs, and feeding structures that could be turned inside out.

From Science Daily Apr. 6, 2026

Here, there, I add green to signify shoots, new stalks, branches slowly, ever so slowly becoming baby trees.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

In New York, where the firm is located, people are only eligible for those if they are being stalked by a partner or ex-partner.

From Salon Aug. 17, 2026

Chisora, partly outside of the ropes, beat the count at eight, eyes glazed, as Wilder stalked forward.

From BBC Apr. 4, 2026

And yet for all this success, a persistent melancholy stalked the writer.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 2026

Guardiola grew frustrated with City's failure to kill off Newcastle, urging his players to "keep the ball better" as he stalked the touchline.

From Barron's Feb. 21, 2026

Among the terriers he stalked imperiously, and Toots and Ysabel he utterly ignored, for he was king,—king over all creeping, crawling, flying things of Judge Miller’s place, humans included.

From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London

Galperin is similarly skeptical of any potential features that could meaningfully curb stalking: “It is not salvageable technology because of just the sheer scale of propensity to abuse.”

From Salon Aug. 17, 2026

Flock cameras help police solve crimes, but cases of officers abusing their access to the technology for stalking raise concerns about privacy violations.

From Slate Aug. 13, 2026

Luigi Mangione who is accused of killing a health insurance boss in Manhattan may plead guilty to stalking charges in his federal case, The New York Times reported Thursday.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

Schneider faces misdemeanor charges of stalking and targeted residential picketing in American Fork and similar charges in Provo, where he went after the Bricks & Minifigs corporate offices.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

Now, with American bombers stalking the borders of Soviet territory, he launched the rocket.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin




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