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- noun Plural form of
murmuration .
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Examples
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The behaviour of these murmurations of starlings has puzzled scientists for years.
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That's what I had with my mother too, so I am pleased that these murmurations touched your heart.
The Starship and the Museum: The Shape of Things Fresca 2010
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I'll find it -- and playing it, I will know that I am really not alone in my strange love of murmurations.
The Starship and the Museum: The Shape of Things Fresca 2010
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With attention I suddenly hear the fan behind me, a beeping truck heading in reverse, the murmurations of a crowd of voices entering the building downstairs; someone adjusts their body in a wooden chair, my heart beats, I swallow, a page is turned.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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With attention I suddenly hear the fan behind me, a beeping truck heading in reverse, the murmurations of a crowd of voices entering the building downstairs; someone adjusts their body in a wooden chair, my heart beats, I swallow, a page is turned.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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I posted about murmurations just a few days before all the other.
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The spectacular flocks of starlings, which sometimes number tens or even hundreds of thousands, are called murmurations.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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You see frequent examples of it, in the murmurations of the people in the wilderness.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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As ap - peareth by the Sedition of Dathan and Abiram; and al the murmurations of the children of Ifrael againft Mofes and Aaron.
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