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It adds to the curiousness of caecilians, who were already known for feeding hatchlings skin ripped off mom’s back as a postnatal nutritious snack.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2024

We are placed in a constant state of curiousness, wondering where the storytellers are leading us and when we’re the ones driving the tale.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2022

Rules, guardrails and boundaries can lead us into a state of safe curiousness, one where we’re given permission to be vulnerable.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2022

Borths said the pseudo-thumb hid in plain sight, probably because it was overshadowed by the curiousness of the aye-aye’s other fingers.

From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2019

But then, also, it was with a certain reverent curiousness that she approached the cabin, while the Hush on her cheek showed a yet riper mellowness.

From The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke by London, Jack