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noun

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Recent Examples of magpie
Adjective
The aloof downtown intellectual, named Luc by her Belgian parents, is a poetic essayist with a magpie mind and a talent for archive spelunking. Carl Swanson, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024 The language and structure of King’s sermons, tapping into this magpie tradition of oral performance, had many sources. Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
Noun
Ravens, magpies and even common urban crows have demonstrated impressive feats of intelligence, from using traffic lights to crack nuts to remembering human faces and even holding grudges. Scott Travers, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024 Backcountry skier rescued from avalanche near Berthoud Pass On Sunday the group counted and saw 26 species of birds, including a Golden Eagle, Bald eagles, magpies, Belted Kingfishers, Great Blue Herons, Northern Shrikes, Common Goldeneye and Gadwall ducks and an American Dipper. Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post, 3 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for magpie 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for magpie
Adjective
  • For ten nights, an eclectic group of hunters confront the dangerous terrain, nocturnal creatures and their own tiny demons.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The result was a wide variety of power-train configurations finding a home in an eclectic array of models.
    Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The federal government spent more than $6.7 trillion last fiscal year, with the largest payments directed toward Social Security, Medicare, interest payments, defense spending, and other assorted health costs.
    William Gavin, Quartz, 23 Jan. 2025
  • In 2023, Tom Holland, who has appeared opposite Cumberbatch as Spider-Man to his Doctor Strange in assorted Marvel movies, publicly credited his co-star with teaching him how to cry on command.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Other birds, such as crows and jays, also may damage lawns.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 18 Dec. 2024
  • There would be, for her, no thrilling thunk of a landing jay, no chickadee wings fanning her ears.
    Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The performances will run the musical gamut and reflect a varied year in music, in which female narrators reined supreme, country ruled the charts and genre-bending was the name of the game. Need a break?
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Their distinct histories in the U.S. and varied relationships with the government had shaped three distinctly different political outlooks.
    Jane Hong / Made by History, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025

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