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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As they grow they moult several times.
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By August the male will have begun to moult and will become almost indistinguishable from the female.
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No, he had been moulting, like a bird.
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One day she carried a tall moulting sunflower into the Staff Room.
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Periodically, they moult their thin transparent skins, changing shape as they do so.
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The dragonfly nymphs may take up to 2 years before they moult into the adult form.
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The larva moults to give rise to the four-legged nymph, which, after five more days, becomes the adult mite.
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You can not but feel that Aisling O'Sullivan, moulting magnificently like a sick eagle, is having a high old time.