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A Chicago aquarium overcame one in a million odds to raise a warty frogfish.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 13, 2026
The Bryants aren’t the only ones smiling by the time the last strips of white and purple tulle are wrapped around the mummy and the giant warty witch is securely tied against a tree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025
Meanwhile, other wild pig species, such as the pygmy hog of India and the Visayan warty pig of the Philippines, both critically endangered, are also at risk.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2023
But if you're buying a warty gourd purely for decorative reasons, the source of the warts might not be that important.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2022
It was like observing a Martian, or a particularly warty toad.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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Moser writes that “one of her great themes” was “the distance between the shadow-world of images and the wartier reality of life.”
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2019
He would grow up, a process recounted in his electric and electrifying new memoir, “Hitch-22,” to confront wartier bullies.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2010
No, sir, you can bet he didn't, becuz he's the wartiest boy in this town; and he wouldn't have a wart on him if he'd knowed how to work spunk-water.
From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2. by Twain, Mark
“Most of the classes are over for the day, sir,” Nan replied, as Bess took much time in selecting the wartiest and biggest pickle in the Deuseldorf collection.
From Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse by Carr, Annie Roe
A bloated toad, studded with dermal excrescences, was boasting that she was the wartiest creature alive.
From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Bierce, Ambrose
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