crow
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It was only when samples arrived at the biomedical research laboratory in the capital Kinshasa -- nearly 1,800 kilometres away as the crow flies -- that the Ebola outbreak was confirmed.
From Barron's • May 24, 2026
“I’ve had to eat crow, because it became big all over the world.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
"I truly think it had given up by the time the crow had found it," Claire said.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026
When a crow sometimes consciously detects a stimulus and sometimes does not, specific nerve cells respond in line with that internal experience.
From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2025
Omakayas had never heard a crow make such a sound before, and she knew it was a special sign of affection.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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