ivory
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Despite their evolutionary distance, the team discovered that both butterflies and moths repeatedly relied on the same two genes, ivory and optix, to produce nearly identical warning colors.
From Science Daily • May 4, 2026
Some of those eagerly sought to enlighten their charges, while a few others grew to see – or claimed to see – an unbridgeable chasm between the ivory tower and mass cultural aspiration.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
The florist-by-trade gestures behind her to hundreds of flowers contained in buckets — blue thistles, ivory anemones and calla lilies painted silver — all twisted and unfurling into the air.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026
“I use these examples to show my team that we can’t be ivory tower operators.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
It shone with gold and gleamed with ivory and sparkled with jewels.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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