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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

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

‘Fa, please. Don’t -’ In the Forest, a twig snapped.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026

Other acts include Major Lazer, indie-pop band Foster the People and British singer, dancer, and visual artist FKA twigs.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

Then there are some measures already required under previous wildfire regulations — such as removing dead vegetation like twigs and leaves, from the ground, roof and gutters — that are not under debate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2026

Remarkably, it turns out, the trunk, branches, twigs and leaves of the tree itself—the species populating it—furnish the mechanical components of such a device.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

Alyce was sitting by the fire one cool November morning, tying up birch twigs for a broom, when a pounding came at the door.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

"I hadn't really twigged that he was looking for a bit more earthiness and a bit more bite."

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2024

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

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 Kelly, Eleanor Mercein

“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 Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by Ashton, John

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

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 Breckenridge, Gerald

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

From Captivating Mary Carstairs by Crosby, Raymond Moreau