birdlike
Americanadjective
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Origin of birdlike
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Her voice, a birdlike soprano with an animated trill, hadn’t changed much from her youth: “I sound like a little girl singing all these Lord-awful songs,” she told “Fresh Air’s” Terry Gross in 2001.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
But Peggy Johnson, CEO of Agility Robotics, wants people to know that today’s bipedal robots with powerful birdlike legs go way beyond “back flips and making coffee.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The researchers identified them as the birdlike raptor Citipes elegans; both lacked growth marks on the bones and so were probably less than 1 year old, weighing as much as a modern-day turkey.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023
But not one that the Merlin bird-song identification app from Cornell Lab of Ornithology picks up, as birdlike as it may sound.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2023
But within the frail, birdlike body of Mrs. Rappaport was the spirit of a dragon capable of tackling the heavens and earth.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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