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Recent Examples of coveyAmong the highlights is her vast (and presumably growing) collection of awards, including her covey of CMA and ACM trophies and her 2024 Grammy for Best Country Album, and an array of stage wear that’s a fashionista’s feast.—Nancy Kruh, People.com, 19 July 2025 The bulk of the covey swung around my position in a sweeping curve.—H. R. Temple, Outdoor Life, 16 July 2025 Once hatched, the chicks feed on insects, and the family group stays together, forming a covey that will remain together into the fall.—Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 28 Mar. 2024 Home gardens may see nesting mourning dove, a covey of baby quail, or the miracle of tiny hummingbird chicks hatching from miniature eggs in a nest not much bigger than a large thimble.—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
Until Toliver ran into Mullen senior defensive end Mason Bonner, who led a swarm of defenders and smothered Toliver for a 3-yard loss.
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Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
18 Oct. 2025
D’Amico’s earlier work using onboard star tracker cameras to support satellite swarm navigation has been successfully deployed on NASA’s Starling Mission.
Smith instead signed with Indiana over several Big Ten and SEC programs, then stayed in Bloomington despite numerous schools trying to pry him away the last few years — especially after Indiana’s coaching change following the 2023 season.
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Dane Brugler,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
New York — Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the leaders of the Impressionist school of painting, established in 1874 by a group of French artists, whose loose brushwork and brightly colored paints created a sense of spontaneity and modernity.
Nigeria was an ex-UK colony, so for me, My Father’s Shadow was a no-brainer.
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Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
16 Oct. 2025
Tiny zooids known as kelp lace bryozoan live in a colony on kelp leaves, or blades, that when combined resemble mold and are sometimes confused as such.
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Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Oct. 2025
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