monarchs

plural of monarch

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Recent Examples of monarchs The zoo participates in conservation efforts by tagging monarchs and reporting sightings to track their migration. Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025 Regulating the pesticides that pose the biggest threats to monarchs would also likely face resistance from farmers. Jessica Boehm, Axios, 20 Mar. 2025 Planting a pollinator garden with milkweed (the only plant the butterflies will lay eggs on) and nectar-producing plants (for eating) can provide a hospitable habitat for migrating monarchs. Jessica Boehm, Axios, 20 Mar. 2025 In the last three decades, the population of monarchs has suffered a 90% decline. Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025 The monarchs weighed down the trees’ boughs in enormous, swollen clusters and danced around white blossoms that laced the ground cover. Chloe Berge, AFAR Media, 14 Mar. 2025 Nat Hab also bolsters the local economy through tourism so people can continue these projects year-round instead of leaving to secure work elsewhere during the spring and summer when the monarchs head back north. Chloe Berge, AFAR Media, 14 Mar. 2025 For Laine Johnson Crump, seeing the monarchs had been a lifelong dream after raising the butterflies and teaching her preschool classes in Minnesota about them for years. Chloe Berge, AFAR Media, 14 Mar. 2025 The western monarchs fly about 300 miles from the Pacific Coast to inland areas in the West. Jennifer Borresen, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monarchs
Noun
  • The Hanukkah celebration dates back to the second century BC when Greek rulers tried to force Jews to abandon their religion and adapt to Greek cultural practices instead.
    Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 23 Dec. 2024
  • In Hammurabi's ancient Babylon, rulers were already worried about capping interest rates to protect borrowers from exploitation.
    Boaz Sobrado, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The cohort will be honored at a virtual ceremony on Thursday, with the princes issuing separate congratulatory messages.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
  • If this is how princes of the church behave, perhaps the rest of us aren’t so bad after all.
    Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024

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