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John Lonsdale, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2024
Locals also love Pat's Pizza or flock to Woodman's Bar & Grill for its fish tacos.
—Erinne Magee, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2024
The company also culled more than 3% of its flock in response to the outbreak.
—Alice Park, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
However, outbreaks in commercial poultry or backyard flocks that led to deaths have been reported in 48 states since February 2022.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
The culling represented about 3.6% of the company’s total flock as of early March.
—Bryan Mena, CNN, 3 Apr. 2024
Critics say the program also promotes animal cruelty by allowing farmers to euthanize their flocks by shutting down a barn’s ventilation system and pumping in hot air, a method that can take hours.
—Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Staff move the camera to capture the large flocks of sandhill cranes and waterfowl that visit the area.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Apr. 2024
Meanwhile, flocks of herons and egrets arrive to exploit the commotion, luring other predators to follow their lunch to the banks.
—Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Apr. 2024
Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 12 Apr. 2024
Generally, inflation has been higher in the South and West because Americans have flocked to those regions for favorable climates and lower costs, pushing up consumer demand and prices, especially for housing.
—Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
The Milwaukee area got a taste of a solar eclipse on Monday afternoon — 90% of one, at least ― and citizens flocked to the streets to check out the strange change in the sky.
—Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2024
By Marina Koren Like migratory birds guided by the stars, hundreds of thousands of Americans have flocked in the direction of today’s total solar eclipse.
—Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2024
Amazon shoppers are flocking to Oofos sandals to wear at home or on the go.
—Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2024
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A total of 32 million people in the US are located within the eclipse’s 115-mile-wide path of totality and will have the chance to see the cosmological marvel.
—Elisa Raffa, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024
By Melissa Locker and Chris Wilson April 6, 2024 6:50 AM EDT
The moon will begin to darken the sun in Dallas starting at 1:40 p.m. and hit its peak at 1:42 p.m. Since Dallas is the largest city in the eclipse’s path, folks are flocking there to witness the show.
—Melissa Locker, TIME, 6 Apr. 2024
In 2017, the moon blocked the sun in Makanda for 2 minutes and 42 seconds — longer than anywhere else, according to NASA — and thousands of visitors flocked to the tiny village to see it.
—Roxana Saberi, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2024
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Word History
Noun (1)
Middle English, from Old English flocc crowd, band; akin to Old Norse flokkr crowd, band
Noun (2)
Middle English flok, from Anglo-French, from Latin floccus
Noun (1)
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb (1)
14th century, in the meaning defined above
Noun (2)
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb (2)
1530, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Flock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flock. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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