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Recent Examples of urchin But another factor was the explosion of urchin populations. Byrd Pinkerton, Vox, 1 Apr. 2025 The California state government has partnered with nonprofits and commercial fishermen to clear urchins and restore kelp. Byrd Pinkerton, Vox, 1 Apr. 2025 Read on for an exclusive excerpt from the prologue of The Secret Book Society. London, England June 1895 Clara Chambers, the Countess of Duxbury, entered her drawing room and considered the urchin who’d demanded to be seen at once. Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025 There were enormous sponges and urchins with long spines. Nell Zink, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for urchin
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Noun
  • Other surprises found inside this space that exists outside our reality are monkeys trained to post hate on Superman online like real-life trolls, and one creepy guy nicknamed Mister Handsome.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 17 July 2025
  • Infant subjects—aside from those excluded for fussiness, crying, or non-completion—showed no preference for a stuffed cheetah, elephant, lion, or monkey toy purportedly proffered by a human woman over one purportedly proffered by a robot.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • In his mug shot, Anton bears little resemblance to the handsome devil from the earlier composite image.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
  • To play devil’s advocate to myself, though, this time around the contestants have air conditioning, which might have been a deal-breaker in order to get any contestants from The Golden Bachelor/ette there.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 8 July 2025

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“Urchin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urchin. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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