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Noun
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Viewers also go up into the crow’s nest – the lookouts’ point of view – and into the lifeboats.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Mar. 2026 -
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
Noun
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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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Stephanie says, between a bark and a chirp.—
Gerald Witt,
AJC.com,
1 Mar. 2026
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Participants will be trained to learn the chirps and croaks of various local frog and toad species, then commit to going out to a particular piece of the watershed near their homes a couple of nights per month to listen for the frogs and toads and record their absence or presence.—
Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Chickens cluck as students rush to collect eggs.—
Alexa Liacko,
CBS News,
23 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
Noun
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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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Infection occurs when the tree's bark is damaged by insects, animals, or mechanical wounds, causing the soft wood to deteriorate quickly and make the trunk and branches susceptible to breakage.—
Samantha Johnson,
Martha Stewart,
5 Mar. 2026
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Small cottony clusters may appear on branches, in cracks in the bark, on roots, or on the undersides of leaves.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
4 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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 6 Mar. 2026.
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