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Examples
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As it turns out, the butterfly's brief annual sojourn at the Battery Gardens is no accident.
A Flyover Downtown Ralph M. Gardner 2011
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Spared for the moment from the "Dendroid" invasion is Gallery One -- where a magnetic example from Paine's "Replicant" series is on view, a wall sprouting a "butterfly's eye view" of colorful examples of many species of mushrooms, so realistic -- some are even broken -- that a friend was tempted to touch to prove they were not real mushrooms.
Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta: Magic Mushrooms and a Tree of Steel -- Roxy Paine @ James Cohan Gallery Mark Wiener 2010
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The titles say it all – Death By Hanging, Double Suicide, Pandemonium – although the lyrical Silence Has No Wings follows a butterfly's journey, while Funeral Parade Of Roses is a landmark drama on Japanese transsexuals.
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When a chrysalis turns into a butterfly, the caterpillar's immune system attacks the very first of the butterfly's cells as invaders.
Kenny Ausubel: The Revolution Has Begun - "The Shift Hits the Fan" Kenny Ausubel 2010
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When a chrysalis turns into a butterfly, the caterpillar's immune system attacks the very first of the butterfly's cells as invaders.
Kenny Ausubel: The Revolution Has Begun - "The Shift Hits the Fan" Kenny Ausubel 2010
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It will take a little bit more to make me feel bad about thinking the TDK was a good movie (Still not as good as iron man imo) then the nebulous theory that crushing all the butterfly's will stop the possibility of the butterfly effect.
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Now the new data from the Big Butterfly Count suggests that the butterfly's relative decline in the south could be linked to the changing climate.
UK butterfly numbers fall following coldest summer in 18 years 2011
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She tethers herself with a necklace of rope, imagines a woman with butterfly's wings.
Imago JP Reese 2011
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It has been said, ad nauseum, that the flapping of a butterfly's wing in Tierra del Fuego can cause a tsunami thousands of miles away.
John Feffer: The Geopolitics of Stupidity John Feffer 2011
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When a chrysalis turns into a butterfly, the caterpillar's immune system attacks the very first of the butterfly's cells as invaders.
Kenny Ausubel: The Revolution Has Begun - "The Shift Hits the Fan" Kenny Ausubel 2010
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