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Recent Examples of molt
And the protein this baby junco needs to molt its blotchy juvenile feathers and to grow sleek stone-gray feathers on top and white ones below would come only from bugs.
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Madeline Bodin, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
Key Takeaways After 17 years underground, an enormous brood of loud, molting cicadas is emerging this spring in parts of the southern and northeastern United States.
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Hunting, mating, molting and laying eggs — all of it happens inside (or near) its diving bell.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
Some scientists think that whales might also migrate to molt their skin in those same warm, shallow waters.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Mar. 2025
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Madeline Bodin, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
Key Takeaways After 17 years underground, an enormous brood of loud, molting cicadas is emerging this spring in parts of the southern and northeastern United States.
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Hunting, mating, molting and laying eggs — all of it happens inside (or near) its diving bell.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
Some scientists think that whales might also migrate to molt their skin in those same warm, shallow waters.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for molt
shed
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New details are still to come on the Interior Department’s website, but contingency plans published last year shed light on what travelers can expect.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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This reduces the energy required for the zinc ions to shed their surrounding solvent shell and deposit onto the electrode.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Sep. 2025
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“Molt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molt. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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