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stalk

[stawk] / stɔk /




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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

The chimp she later named David Graybeard had been using the stalk to fish for the bugs.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025

In areas such as the Great Plains of North America, where not a single wheat stalk grew 10,000 years ago, you can today walk for hundreds upon hundreds of miles without encountering any other plant.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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