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Etymology
Origin of thrasher
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at thrash, -er 1
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Lead single “Lux Æterna” is a serviceable thrasher in keeping with 2016’s “Hardwired… To Self-Destruct,” the band’s previous album which marked a bit of a return to form for the OG metal titans.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
Georgia picked the brown thrasher, a fiercely territorial bird with a repertoire of more than 1,000 song types.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2019
Franzen excitedly thinks he’s caught sight of a Californian thrasher, a long-tailed songbird with a curved beak.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2018
Heads up, scary movie fans: If you're planning to see the thrasher film “Halloween” at an AMC theater his weekend, don’t wear a Michael Myers mask.
From Fox News ● Oct. 18, 2018
Let’s see, there’s grain, the biggest export—a thrasher goes from farm to farm, and neighbors get together to bundle the shocks.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
During a brutal 2012 heat wave, defunct Washington thrashers Black Breath played an industrial space-turned-punk house that acted like an oven in the summer and an ice box in the winter.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
Populations of American crows, tufted titmice, gray catbirds and brown thrashers dropped below normal during the cicada emergence year—and then increased the following year, after which they stabilized.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 9, 2021
Keeping a written list of the visiting birds — goldfinches, yellow warblers, brown thrashers — made him feel connected to the memory of his birdwatching father, who died 11 years ago.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2020
Then as now, the Southern California thrashers deliver a reliably dark and aggressive message, as pure in their chosen genre as the Ramones were in the first wave of punk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2019
In spring, the meadows burst into galaxies of yellow-mustard flowers, and robins and thrashers sing in stands of tulip trees and white ash.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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