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Recent Examples of calveLate May to mid-June is calving season for Colorado’s growing moose population, state officials said Wednesday.—Katie Langford, Denver Post, 28 May 2025 As the whales migrate each year from calving grounds near Florida to foraging grounds near New England, they are often struck by passing boats or entangled in fishing gear, which can hurt or kill them.—Nate Iglehart, Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2025 In a small theater, the three-channel video installation shows slow-moving rivers of fiery lava, surging oceans and calving glaciers alongside close-ups of people staring at the camera, hugging and moving gracefully.—Alina Tugend, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025 White boulders shape-shifted in the twilight, and the sound of a calving glacier ricocheted like a gunshot between the mountains.—Chloe Berge, Travel + Leisure, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for calve
Even after 30 years, during which The Golden Compass became a trilogy, His Dark Materials, which begat a second trilogy, The Book of Dust—collectively selling something like 50 million copies—Pullman’s books retain an idiosyncratic spikiness.
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Lev Grossman,
The Atlantic,
23 Oct. 2025
The age-old value proposition of indie filmmaking — that landing acceptance to a prestigious festival begets a sale to a distributor that pays off your debts and puts your movie in front of a massive audience — is flimsier than ever.
And in this year’s Superman, the sidekick pup Krypto was a digital version of director James Gunn’s own dog, Ozu, scanned for the role.
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Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Oct. 2025
According to Garro, Prada thrived under her care, enjoying her favorite foods—ravioli with the tomato sauce washed off and pup cups from coffee shops—and loved being carried everywhere.
Just before Thursday’s taping Pence and Emanual met outside the greenroom, and each greeted each other warmly, quickly asking each other questions about their kids before anything else, while kidding with each other about a long unpaid bet.
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