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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
Hence, in the case of warty pumpkins — a popular novelty gourd often sold this time of year — being covered in warts isn't necessarily a bad thing.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2022
“I smell a thief!” he shouts, casting around him, knocking over a tankard of dark brown beer, his warty nose sniffing the air.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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
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
“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
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
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