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Certain ideas — a sweater made of flyaway feathers, a gradient that molted into florals around the collar and dresses with untamed bows — hinted at a greater whimsy lying somewhere below the surface.
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Jacob Gallagher, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Harbor seal mothers prefer to rest on slower icebergs after giving birth and on faster ones during molting season.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Time isn’t just marching on—your civilization is about to molt, caterpillar-style.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2025
The chemical builds up in feathers that the birds regularly molt in large quantities.
—Gayoung Lee, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2025
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Jacob Gallagher, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Harbor seal mothers prefer to rest on slower icebergs after giving birth and on faster ones during molting season.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Time isn’t just marching on—your civilization is about to molt, caterpillar-style.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2025
The chemical builds up in feathers that the birds regularly molt in large quantities.
—Gayoung Lee, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2025
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Silver buttercups, cow parsley and strawberry leaves fill a vase, while branches of apple blossom and Scots pine shed petals and pines, like a Dutch still life in precious metal.—
Kate Matthams,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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Several of the current PAC members spoke with Golfweek about an issue and shed some light on the path the event will take starting in the 2025 edition.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Apr. 2025
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“Molt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molt. Accessed 8 May. 2025.
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