The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Oakley favors natural lighting and minimal makeup, lacing the film with shots of critters and insects going about their business.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Then suddenly, barely perceptible amid the trees and undergrowth, like insects moving along a cauliflower bud, several tiny white figures popped up on the Ukrainians’ drone footage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Golden rice fields stretch across the Vercelli plain between Milan and Turin, a parcelled landscape broken only by the wood and wetlands created by Cerutti, now home to rare birds and insects.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
During summer peaks the hives become home to about 180,000 of the striped insects.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
But it turned out that Hanako’s grandparents had discovered this afternoon that the wheat was being attacked by insects, so they did not think they could go to Kobe.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
