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In the Gulf of Mexico—or the Gulf of America, as it’s now known—a homing pigeon flew into the ship’s bridge.—Adam Iscoe, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025 In the project, da Costa outfitted homing pigeons with sensors to collect data on air quality.—Matt Shaw, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025 Like his late father’s homing pigeons who keep returning to their shabby rooftop coop — a holding-pattern image that echoes the ennui of Terry Malloy on a very different waterfront — he’s imprisoned by the limits of his knowledge, the petrified loop of his experience.—Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Feb. 2025 Whittlesey also attempted to alert allies of their position via homing pigeons.—Scott Travers, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for homing pigeon
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