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- noun Plural form of
catbird .
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Examples
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There were birds everywhere, especially back in the dog roses behind the dunes: catbirds, wrens, red-winged blackbirds, robins, mockingbirds, gulls, cormorants.
"The tides will come and go, witnessed by no waking eye." greygirlbeast 2009
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* The full name is gray catbird, although neither of my bird books lists catbirds of any other color.
Archive 2009-06-01 AYDIN 2009
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For content companies, the choice between Apple and Google may be uncomfortable - but that leaves folks like Netflix and Boxee in the catbirds seat.
Steve Rosenbaum: Is Apple TV 2.0 DOA? Steve Rosenbaum 2010
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For content companies, the choice between Apple and Google may be uncomfortable - but that leaves folks like Netflix and Boxee in the catbirds seat.
Steve Rosenbaum: Is Apple TV 2.0 DOA? Steve Rosenbaum 2010
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For content companies, the choice between Apple and Google may be uncomfortable - but that leaves folks like Netflix and Boxee in the catbirds seat.
Steve Rosenbaum: Is Apple TV 2.0 DOA? Steve Rosenbaum 2010
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Every morning on the way to school, I listened to a symphony of larks, catbirds and warblers.
Cristina Carlino: The Changing Room: Teaching My Child About Mother Earth 2010
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Catbirds actually meow, which is why they're called catbirds, naturally.
One for the birds 2008
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The birds I was happiest to see were the catbirds.
One for the birds 2008
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Every morning on the way to school, I listened to a symphony of larks, catbirds and warblers.
Cristina Carlino: The Changing Room: Teaching My Child About Mother Earth 2010
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Every morning on the way to school, I listened to a symphony of larks, catbirds and warblers.
Cristina Carlino: The Changing Room: Teaching My Child About Mother Earth 2010
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