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Recent Examples of amphibian
The scientists removed a gene that controls the production of thyroxine, a hormone that regulates the amphibians’ metamorphosis.
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Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
But instead of controlling destructive sugar cane beetle populations, the amphibians quickly became their own ecological catastrophe.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Apr. 2025
The researchers aren't sure if the amphibians clustered together to hunt as a group or to breed.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
By turning the water temperature to freezing, the process simulates when amphibians and reptiles conserve energy in the winter, when food is scarce and temperatures are low.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
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Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
But instead of controlling destructive sugar cane beetle populations, the amphibians quickly became their own ecological catastrophe.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Apr. 2025
The researchers aren't sure if the amphibians clustered together to hunt as a group or to breed.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
By turning the water temperature to freezing, the process simulates when amphibians and reptiles conserve energy in the winter, when food is scarce and temperatures are low.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for amphibian
Noun
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The boys are in their late teens, and Jeff, who dreams of becoming a filmmaker, is eager to ingratiate himself with Blake, who will pick them up in a seaplane and take them to the lodge.—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
19 Mar. 2025
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The three-bedroom, four-bathroom house stretches more than 300 feet across Lake Washington’s waterfront has a dock that supports boats and seaplanes.—
Shannon Carroll,
Quartz,
16 Apr. 2025
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The measurements of the aircraft shown by the satellite image captured Wednesday and first spotted by open-source intelligence researcher MT Anderson on X, are consistent with the dimensions of the B-52 bomber.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 May 2025
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The event ended with a flyover by British military aircraft, including a wartime Lancaster bomber and the RAF’s Red Arrows aerobatic team.—
Danica Kirka,
Twin Cities,
5 May 2025
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In his eighth and possibly last installment, The Final Reckoning, in theaters May 23, Impossible Missions Force agent Ethan Hunt hangs from and crawls along the wings of a 1940s-era biplane zooming above South Africa’s Drakensberg mountain range.—
Jack Smart,
People.com,
1 May 2025
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As a biplane climbs to 8,500 feet, on a gloomy afternoon in April 1933, Swan’s daredevil plan is to leap from the metal hopper beneath the lower wing, drop through the clouds, and, at the precise moment the rocket in his backpack ignites, explode up into space.—
Howard Blum,
airmail.news,
15 Feb. 2025
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The Signal chain episode also showed that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provided the exact timings of warplane launches and when bombs would drop.—
Zeke Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2025
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The Pentagon also ordered a second flotilla and sent additional warplanes to the region.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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The Army’s record had been set by a five-man crew flying a trimotor monoplane with the financial backing of the War Department.—
Richard Selcer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Mar. 2024
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Four years later, father and son took their first flight together in Warren, where a Ford trimotor was offering short trips to the public.—
Jamie Turner,
cleveland.com,
16 July 2019
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Before becoming the 41st U.S. President, George H. W. Bush received training on the Avenger TBF/TBM torpedo bomber at NAS Ft. Lauderdale from June 16 to Aug. 16, 1943.—
Lauren Ferrer,
Sun Sentinel,
3 July 2024
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Several hundred aircraft would assemble, including dive bombers, torpedo bombers and fighter planes, such as the P38 Lightnings, F4F Wildcats, F6F Hellcats, F4U Corsairs and P-40 Warhawks.—
Linda McIntosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Aug. 2023
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“Amphibian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amphibian. Accessed 17 May. 2025.
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