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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Given that male albatrosses have the same genetic incentives as male elephant seals, why do they behave so differently?
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Her youth was a rock round her neck, her albatross .
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In the year before Gould's arrival a thousand albatrosses were killed on Albatross Island alone.
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It was too rough to fish, and our only companions were the albatrosses.
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The albatrosses, however, remained.
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Their wingspan exceeds that of an albatross .
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We identified two different types of albatross , four species of petrel, and a tern.
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You share it with dolphins and whales and albatrosses and the lonely satellite orbiting overhead.