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Recent Examples of amphibian
The drumlin islands feature diverse ecosystems including salt marshes, sandy beaches, sea-grass beds, tidal pools, mudflats, grasslands and hardwood forests—alongside a wide range of wild animals and marine life, including mussels, barnacles and dozens of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
In the end, Jar Jar was a combination of a dinosaur and an amphibian with a parrotfish pattern on his skin.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 18 Apr. 2025
Kenn Bearman, owner of the Animal Store in Lincolnwood, which carries the amphibians, said two years ago the axolotl was so popular that retail prices spiked from $39 to over $100.
—Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
The scientists removed a gene that controls the production of thyroxine, a hormone that regulates the amphibians’ metamorphosis.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
In the end, Jar Jar was a combination of a dinosaur and an amphibian with a parrotfish pattern on his skin.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 18 Apr. 2025
Kenn Bearman, owner of the Animal Store in Lincolnwood, which carries the amphibians, said two years ago the axolotl was so popular that retail prices spiked from $39 to over $100.
—Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
The scientists removed a gene that controls the production of thyroxine, a hormone that regulates the amphibians’ metamorphosis.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for amphibian
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Seaborne, which operates a seaplane service in the U.S. Virgin Islands, is also flying under court protection.—
David Lyons,
Sun Sentinel,
17 May 2025
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The tag features palm trees, a parrot, sandals on the beach and a seaplane floating in the waters amid a sunset.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 May 2025
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Inuit started living here full-time in the 1940s and 1950s, when the U.S. military hired them to help build a navigation tower and a radar station to detect Soviet bombers coming over the pole.—
Alec Luhn,
Scientific American,
20 May 2025
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The attack, which only killed the bomber but could have been much worse, is an act worthy of perhaps the dumbest and most poisonous ideology on the planet right now.—
Rich Lowry,
National Review,
19 May 2025
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Mission: Impossible film sees Tom Cruise dangling from a biplane and going underwater to defeat an all-powerful AI.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
18 May 2025
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In his eighth and possibly last installment, The Final Reckoning, in theaters May 23, Impossible Missions Force agent Ethan Hunt hangs from and crawls along the wings of a 1940s-era biplane zooming above South Africa’s Drakensberg mountain range.—
Jack Smart,
People.com,
1 May 2025
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During the stop, a Russian warplane briefly crossed into NATO airspace, prompting a scramble by allied jets.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 May 2025
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Aircraft carriers Carl Vinson and Harry S. Truman are launching warplanes to combat Houthi rebels in Yemen.—
Colin Demarest,
Axios,
18 Apr. 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 28 May. 2025.
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