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Soon enough, trees everywhere were showing blotchy, mottled, yellowed leaves and suffering from twig dieback and sparse foliage.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

I’m so curious with the twig and the hair and the blood and the bell — Is that a thing?

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 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

He then used that stripped, bent twig to spoon the termites into his mouth.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025

We were creeping down a deer trail when we heard the snap of a twig.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

The “Odyssey” actor filed her petition a day after LaBeouf’s ex-girlfriend FKA twigs brought her latest lawsuit against the former Disney Channel star to a close.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Bird nests, for example, rely on a network of interwoven twigs and fibers to maintain their structure.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026

In Vietnam, herons cast twigs in ponds like fly-fishermen to lure prey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

They also have to remove leaves, twigs and needles from gutters, and they already cannot keep exposed firewood in piles next to their house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026

River debris—logs, twigs, pieces of trapped wagons—float past and sometimes slam into Midnight’s and Belle’s legs.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

"We should have collectively twigged much sooner. I should have twigged," he added.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2023

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

I first twigged to this on the occasion of Obama’s extraordinary appearance at the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston after the June 17 murders last year.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2016

If Pamela really is the culprit, the evidence was right in front of us, and nobody twigged to it.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

You couldn't talk friendly to him without twigging that.

From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell

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

You are right," said Smith, "I—was twigging you again.

From Captivating Mary Carstairs by Raymond Moreau Crosby

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

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