The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Workers initially excavated the tar pits by capturing massive chunks of earth as if they were digging up a large tree, root ball and all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
But after the 13,000-year mark, that diversity disappeared, said Regan Dunn, a curator at the tar pits and co-author on the study.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
The researchers were particularly struck by a 300-year-long period of high charcoal accumulation from wildfires in the lake that began about 13,200 years ago—right around when the megafauna went missing from the tar pits.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2023
A morning at Boy Scout camp in the forests of northern New Jersey is embedded in my memory, fixed like a bone in the tar pits.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
And those eyes—black they were, and bottomless as tiny twin tar pits.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
