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The finding supports the picture of T. rex as an active predator or scavenger with a relatively fast metabolism rather than a sluggish animal that depended heavily on basking in the sun.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Then his face lit up like the sun hit it.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
It had rained earlier but the sun broke through in time for pictures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
During periods of low wind or when clouds are blocking the sun, it may mean having to fire up fossil fuel power stations to provide the energy required to keep the servers blinking.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Anytime Rue goes to visit, Nana Dee is always yelling at her to get out of the sun.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
The holes in the colander will project a grid of crescent suns onto the ground.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
In Nepal's eastern plains, rival political flags depicting blue bells and red suns flutter over tea farms and brick homes -- symbols of a local election campaign shaping landmark nationwide polls.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
At maximum intensity, it shone with the light of 10 trillion suns.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2025
Seems bright — a black hole flared with the light of 10 trillion suns.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2025
He points across the dark grounds, and between the deep shadows of other hulking rollers, I see a human structure with its false suns gleaming.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
A barred owl hooted and shook its feathers in a sycamore above the creek, and red-bellied cooters sunned themselves on half-submerged logs.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2026
Backstage at the Blue Note jazz club, Wyclef Jean spreads out on a couch with the air of a sunned cat, his temperament dialed warm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
Because the home has been staged, buyers won’t be able to sit at the very kitchen table where the Kardashian clan gossiped over salads, or the poolside lounges where they often sunned themselves.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026
She settled on a grassy knoll, sunned herself and took a nap.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
From the rear—particularly where his vertebrae were visible—he might almost have passed for one of those needy metropolitan children who are sent out every summer to endowed camps to be fattened and sunned.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
On the banks of the Waal, the Dutch branch of the Rhine, swimmers are sunning themselves on a Nijmegen beach that didn't exist before the river level dropped a few months ago.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
He found the Cynic sunning himself beside his ceramic home and offered to grant the man any favor or fulfill any request.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
In almost every case, they were nearly motionless at the surface, sunning themselves in the warm morning light.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2025
He has been to the spot where he was attacked at least 30 times and while he has seen alligators before, they usually are sunning on the back or stay far away.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
And headed back toward the bass stands, eating the jelly beans as I went, so lost in thought that I almost tripped over Mouse, who lay sunning herself on the path.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
