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elephant

[el-uh-fuhnt] / ˈɛl ə fənt /
NOUN
large mammal
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A wrinkled Northern elephant seal named Violet slid out of a crate and onto San Pedro’s Cabrillo Beach on a muggy morning in late August.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

At 80, Steinem celebrated her birthday by riding an elephant in Botswana.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

The giant wad of cash splurged on all this would choke an elephant.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

Each chapter surveys the hoof, trunk or some other segment of the conceptual elephant in more or less chronological progression and finishes with a brief summary of what readers ought to take away.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

A rather worried-looking policeman did come to the house later that same evening to question Mutti about the elephant we were keeping in our garden.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

For millions of years, Pacific mastodons — huge, hairy relatives of modern elephants — roamed a vast and lush range that included California, Oregon, the northern Rocky Mountains and parts of Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2026

Prince Harry has said helping move elephants to safer homes was an "amazing" experience.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

A ban on "hulla parties" -- groups deployed to drive elephants away using "fireballs" and burning stakes -- is required, it said.

From Barron's Aug. 21, 2026

"Maternal age effects are incredibly common, from invertebrates up through humans, elephants, other primates and other mammals," said Kristin Gribble, an associate scientist in the Bay Paul Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

On my way out, I said, “Perhaps small elephants cannot be admitted to finishing school. Perhaps small elephants cannot be finished. Perhaps they...”

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine




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