twig
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The words “California Republic” were painted in black ink with the chewed end of a twig.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Soon enough, trees everywhere were showing blotchy, mottled, yellowed leaves and suffering from twig dieback and sparse foliage.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
In 1960, during her first year at Gombe, Goodall observed a chimpanzee she called David Greybeard carefully strip a twig of leaves and use it to root out tasty termites from a mound.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2025
The chimp took a twig, bent and stripped it of its leaves, then he poked it into a termite's nest.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025
She watched him kneel before the twig pile and grab two to rub together for a fire.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
I found myself surprisingly moved by the meditative activities and programming, even if it felt silly at first to be constructing a mandala with leaves and twigs in the middle of a workweek.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Bird nests, for example, rely on a network of interwoven twigs and fibers to maintain their structure.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026
FKA twigs, who is also a singer and choreographer, said Baker's "extraordinary legacy is such an inspiration to me and to so many people".
From Barron's ● May 12, 2026
Naturally, Lowery’s own artistic collaborators are firing on all cylinders, from Andrew Droz Palermo’s lushly surreal cinematography to original songs by FKA twigs, Jack Antonoff and Charli XCX, supported by a score by Daniel Hart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
Inside twigs, grass, and a little pool of water surrounded her fat spider.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
Although nobody twigged at the time, she was in fact hinting that she was pregnant with her second child.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2023
Most people seem to have twigged the “surveillance” part of the term, but overlooked the second word.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2020
Then, eventually, they twigged that we were interested in biodiversity, flora, and fauna, and people started coming in with chameleons.
From The Verge ● Aug. 28, 2018
Many people on Wall Street twigged to this a good while ago.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 27, 2017
If Pamela really is the culprit, the evidence was right in front of us, and nobody twigged to it.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
Big Bob was no less inquisitive than the others, despite his twigging of Frank for his curiosity.
From The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition by Gerald Breckenridge
The results of Archie's twigging were very apparent; notably the golden-oak rocking-chair, the "chiffoneer" surmounted by the bronze lady with a spear.
From Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
He and Bob knew they would be in for a certain amount of twigging because of their defeat, but he knew how to take it in good part.
From The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards by Gerald Breckenridge
One night, returnin home to bed, I walk’d through Pim-li-co, And, twigging of the Palass, sed, “I’m Jones and In-i-go.”
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 by Various
He began at once, following the example of the birds about him, to prepare for the coming event; "twigging" as Joan called it to herself, amusedly.
From Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
