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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
Unlike dogs, which are sometimes cruelly inbred to select for traits, warty pumpkins are merely briefly-held autumn trifles — even when a lot of biological science underlies their appearance.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2022
The warty skin and bright red eyes were unlike any he had seen in the high-elevation rainforest of Madagascar.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 8, 2021
He emerged from the caverns almost naked, swaddled in his linen diaper like a warty baby.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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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