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Cameroon Death Lake Lake Nyos in Cameroon, Central Africa; deadly carbon dioxide gas suddenly burst forth in 1986, creating a toxic cloud that killed nearly 1,800 people, 3,000 cattle, and countless domestic and wild animals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and insects.
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Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Found nowhere else on the planet, this tiny amphibian is known for its unique method of parenting, with male Darwin’s frogs gestating their young in the vocal sac below their mouth.
—Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
The Pokémon character Wooper is also thought to be inspired by the amphibian.
—Greta Cross, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
Meadowbrook Nature Preserve in Valparaiso is a place to explore and learn more about the life cycle of the amphibian.
—Deena Butterfield, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
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Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Found nowhere else on the planet, this tiny amphibian is known for its unique method of parenting, with male Darwin’s frogs gestating their young in the vocal sac below their mouth.
—Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
The Pokémon character Wooper is also thought to be inspired by the amphibian.
—Greta Cross, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
Meadowbrook Nature Preserve in Valparaiso is a place to explore and learn more about the life cycle of the amphibian.
—Deena Butterfield, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for amphibian
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That’s partly what drew our host, French entrepreneur David Tuchbant, to make his second home away from Paris all the way out here—atop a mossy, forested bluff an hour’s seaplane ride from Vancouver, BC.—
Laura Dannen Redman,
Robb Report,
5 Dec. 2025
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Set in the middle of a host of beautiful lakes, Tavares is known America’s Seaplane City because of the high number of seaplanes that take off and land from its seaplane base.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
25 Oct. 2025
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If that was all that was needed, the Goblin would have been a success, but problems cropped up – not with the fighter but with the bomber.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
8 Jan. 2026
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To demonstrate the system’s capabilities, the research team, led by Huang Jiangtao of the China Aerodynamics Research and Development Centre, applied PADJ-X to conceptual configurations resembling the US Air Force’s B-21 stealth bomber, which is currently undergoing flight testing.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Jan. 2026
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The Utopia of the Seas itself features non-JoJo amenities like ice-skating shows, a full casino, and a biplane over the ship’s boardwalk.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
10 Dec. 2025
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The mission will require plumbing the depths for a sunken Russian sub, hanging from the wing of a biplane – and no less than an aircraft carrier.—
Griff Griffin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Dec. 2025
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The recent drone escalation appears minor compared with the scale of the war that Putin began in 2022, when hundreds of thousands of Russian troops, tanks, and warplanes poured into Ukraine.—
Andrew Ryvkin,
The Atlantic,
14 Oct. 2025
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That morphed following its devastating 1980s war with Iraq into more of an effort to provide a level of deterrence as Arab nations around it purchased sophisticated American bombs, warplanes and tanks that Tehran couldn’t access due to sanctions.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
12 Oct. 2025
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The Army’s record had been set by a five-man crew flying a trimotor monoplane with the financial backing of the War Department.—
Richard Selcer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Mar. 2024
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Four years later, father and son took their first flight together in Warren, where a Ford trimotor was offering short trips to the public.—
Jamie Turner,
cleveland.com,
16 July 2019
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Before becoming the 41st U.S. President, George H. W. Bush received training on the Avenger TBF/TBM torpedo bomber at NAS Ft. Lauderdale from June 16 to Aug. 16, 1943.—
Lauren Ferrer,
Sun Sentinel,
3 July 2024
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Several hundred aircraft would assemble, including dive bombers, torpedo bombers and fighter planes, such as the P38 Lightnings, F4F Wildcats, F6F Hellcats, F4U Corsairs and P-40 Warhawks.—
Linda McIntosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Aug. 2023
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“Amphibian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amphibian. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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