Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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The wind rustles the tree leaves and crows circle above, caw-cawing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
After a murder of crows kidnaps her little brother, a young girl ventures into an enchanted forest filled with talking animals and other magical beings, where a looming war will decide everyone's fate.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
Travis Knight directs the tale about classmates who venture into an enchanted forest to search for a child kidnapped by a murder of crows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Scavenger animals such as possums, red foxes and crows can be exposed to the virus while devouring the carcasses of infected birds.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
The camera would cut to a field of ragged crows and then to a freckle-faced woman who sat in a sunbeam examining her knuckles.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
