tail
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Modi will be in New Zealand for little more than a day, at the tail end of a July 6-11 tour that has also taken him to Indonesia and Australia.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
By analyzing tail hair samples, researchers found that herds living among wolves had cortisol levels 58% higher than those living in areas without wolves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
He didn’t want to look like he was going back with his tail between his legs.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
The vertebrae line up to create a series of ball-and-socket joints running from head to tail.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
He sniffed, wiping his snout with his tail.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
The results were as unequivocal as heads and tails.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
“While there may not be an immediate catalyst to exit the carry trade, the tails are fat and the probability for regime shift remains higher than usual.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
All are four-legged plant eaters, with very long necks that helped them reach up into trees and long counter-balancing tails.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
The international team of researchers were able to piece together the separate odysseys from photos of the whales' tails -- including some taken by amateur photographers on cruises -- captured decades apart.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
So the mechanics had to jump up on the tails of the aircraft to keep the planes’ noses raised.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
He didn’t notice the gray Acura sedan that tailed him through rush-hour traffic on Sunset Boulevard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
She was arrested on 13 December, when she tailed a food delivery worker to enter the property through a side gate.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
All told, Boyd tailed Spivey for about 9 miles, much of it at high speed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
Sauropods were long necked, long tailed plant eaters that grew into the largest animals ever to walk on land, yet their earliest life stages were small, exposed, and highly vulnerable.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2026
They had tailed Ministry workers on their way in, eavesdropped on their conversations, and learned by careful observation which of them could be relied upon to appear, alone, at the same time every day.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Her international career was at risk of tailing off.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
ChatGPT price-war report comes as data shows AI usage already tailing off.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026
But data provided by Blanchet shows the genre rapidly tailing off in the early 2010s.
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
They’re tailing skiers as they rip through moguls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
Toward dusk, the foraging group I’d been tailing began to call out and move to the center of the enclosure.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
