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In just a week, my crow’s feet had all but disappeared, making my eyes look 10 years younger.—
Cathy Nelson,
InStyle,
4 Feb. 2026 -
Other monikers from indigenous tribes for this month’s full moon include the sleet moon from the Comanche people, the Creek tribe’s wind moon and the crow moon as named by the Shawnee.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
31 Jan. 2026
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He was missed — especially vocally — since Gill’s angelic voice does not, in any way shape or form, resemble Walsh’s charmingly out-of-pitch squawk-talk style.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
25 Jan. 2026
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Toy keyboard plinks and saxophone squawks spiral over a booming racket of drums in the ether, slyly threatening to collapse, like an elaborate plate-spinning act.—
H.D. Angel,
Pitchfork,
7 Jan. 2026
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This causes a blast of high-energy radiation called a gamma-ray burst (GRB), a final screech of gravitational waves, and sends out a spray of neutron-rich matter, which allows a process to occur that generates very heavy but unstable elements.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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The only noise is the dip-dip of oars and the ethereal screech of horseshoe bats.—
Tristan Rutherford,
Robb Report,
26 Jan. 2026
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Yesterday a bird’s chirp startled me, sounding for the swiftest second, like the beginning of a warning.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Feb. 2026
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For many of us, our truest Valentine has four legs, a wagging tail, a gentle purr or a happy chirp.—
Cathy M. Rosenthal,
San Antonio Express-News,
10 Feb. 2026
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The loneliness must’ve broken our poor Mister Killer, the sailors would cluck over his body.—
Jonathan Miles,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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What the cluck is going on in Kate Beckinsale’s family?—
Lisa Respers France,
CNN Money,
26 Nov. 2025
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The picture, showing Prince Andrew with his arm around Virginia Giuffre (then Roberts) at what was said to be Ghislaine Maxwell’s mews house in London, has dogged Andrew ever since it was first published.—
Simon Perry,
PEOPLE,
13 Oct. 2025
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Social media has greatly intensified this process; peep a scene like phonk, which devolved from ‘90s Memphis rap homage to a sewage stream of electronic beats to lift weights and mew to.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
4 June 2025
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Honeysuckle is a multi-stem plant with light-colored bark and dark vertical stripes.—
Lee Wallender,
The Spruce,
19 Feb. 2026
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Let the bark chill in the fridge, and break it into chunks once fully cooled.—
Ashley Oerman,
SELF,
19 Feb. 2026
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Rosie started softly, to match the question, but finished in a sort of triumphant cackle.—
Nell Freudenberger,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Nothing came without a cackle from Tammie.—
Brooke Blumberg,
Variety,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Caw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caw. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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