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- noun Plural form of
grebe .
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Examples
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The funniest part of this is that in order for grebes to be mammals I would have been cyber spanked and since we all know that grebes are not mammals I suppose we can all follow this line of reasoning to its logical conclusion?
Think Progress » Kansas Attorney General Refuses To Sue Federal Government Over Health Care Reform 2010
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March 29th, 2010 at 4: 25 pm dbadass says: and tout how the HCR act will increase his flow of ‘patients’ and therefore his income. which will then trickle down to the grebes …
Think Progress » Health insurance CEOs conspire to blame Democrats for increasing premiums. 2010
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Thirty miles east, a very different ferry skitters in a stiff breeze across the Manchester Ship Canal, undeterred by seals but disturbing a couple of grebes.
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But imagine the possibilities if you had studied grebes instead …
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Wander through a copse to a mere and you can commune with grebes, coots and moorhens.
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Waiting for the trolls twisted reasoning for why a world population of 6,810,800,000 has no effect on the environment. especially the populations of pied bill grebes ….
Think Progress » Citing ‘irreversible damage,’ EPA nears veto of mountaintop removal permit. 2010
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The only hint of something richer is the pair of great crested grebes on the river.
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It seemed difficult to imagine that this loch and the grebes are still subject to one of the great mysteries of the Highlands.
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Thousands of pelicans, herons, egrets, ibis, frigate birds, and rarities like grebes and albatrosses are at risk from the river of oil.
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However, they have also been considered related to loons (Gaviidae), grebes (Podicipedidae), or cormorants (Phalacrocoracidae).
Penguins 2010
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