amphibian

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Recent Examples of amphibian In total, the fossil bed contains evidence of 16 groups of vertebrate animals, including 6-foot-long amphibians and freshwater sharks. Rosie McCall, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2025 The same tools used here could help uncover hidden immune structures in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and even humans! Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025 The July 2025 release took place at an undisclosed remote site in the San Gabriel Mountains to protect the young amphibians and their new ecosystem. Rachel Raposas, People.com, 10 July 2025 These findings, unearthed from the Owl Rock Member that outcrops in a remote and less explored area of the site, reveal that at that time older animals like giant amphibians and armored crocodile relatives lived alongside newer species such as early frogs, turtles and pterosaurs. Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for amphibian
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Noun
  • Hundreds of boats are docked in the water just behind the hotel and seaplanes at one of the neighboring slips invite visitors on scenic rides along the 26-mile-long lake.
    Erik Matuszewski, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
  • The parade begins at 5 p.m. on Main Street, kicked off by a seaplane flyover.
    Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • France has its own independent arsenal of nuclear weapons, with both submarine and jet bomber delivery systems.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
  • The PT boat became the bomber squadron of 15 bombers and their crews that Bentsen commanded at age 23.
    John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • In recent times, the show’s numbers — to say nothing of its cultural relevance — have been on the same spiraling trajectory as that biplane Cruise dangled from in the latest Mission: Impossible movie.
    Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025
  • On Thursday, Paramount unveiled new behind-the-scenes footage of the stunt, which occurs in the film after Cruise's Ethan Hunt goes toe-to-toe with Gabriel (Esai Morales) in a high-flying biplane sequence where Ethan transfers from one airplane to another.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • The quartet of Russian warplanes were greeted by 10 U.S. Air Force fighter jets deployed by North American Aerospace Defense Command.
    Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 24 July 2025
  • According to reports in the Ukrainian press, the A.I. had been trained to recognize targets using images of old Soviet warplanes on display in an aviation museum east of Kyiv.
    Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 7 Aug. 2025.

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