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black swan

NOUN
  1. large Australian swan having black plumage and a red bill

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  • I WAS intrigued by a financial whizz-kid on the radio yesterday describing the global credit crisis as "a black swan event. Express & StarExpress & Star
  • When I first visited the Lake in July 2000, there were over 200 coot and great numbers of other birds, including 40 Black Swans.
  • The risks stemming from the Federal Reserve's efforts to stimulate the economy through bond purchases are "humongous" and the central bank doesn't fully understand the potential effects, said Nassim Taleb, author of "The Black Swan. Fed Policymakers 'Do Not Understand Risk' Says Taleb
  • Whimbrel - now ENS Tariq - retains many of the features which helped her and the rest of the Black Swan class of sloops defeat the German U-boats in one of the crucial campaigns of World War II.
  • While the industry and early audiences alike are abuzz with stories of her graphic and sapphic love scene with Black Swan costar Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis has just one word to describe reports that alcohol was involved: "False! Mila Kunis Talks 20-Pound Weight Loss, Sex Scene With Natalie Portman
  • Ai iz reeding The Black Swan buk, tawks a bit confuzully abawt eek oNOM eeks, an pre deek shuns. TOM-TOM CAT - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • But if you like to watch beautiful images and at the same time engross yourself in a masterful world, at times unexpectedly keeping you at the edge of your seat, I recommend Black Swan as one of the best films of 2010, sure to be an Oscar contender in major categories. Michael Russnow: Black Swan: A Must See Even if Ballet Ain't Your Thing
  • The refreshingly younger torch-bearers of York jazz continue their regular jam sessions on Sunday night at the Black Swan, Peasholme Green.
  • Although this was a landscape of vast kinetic energy through the movement of water, there were also some wonderful moments of stillness: the huge veteran oaks at Atcham poised darkly in an oxbow lake, their massive root buttresses under water; the flock of mute swans, with one black swan in their midst, grazing the glimmering edges of flooded fields at Cound. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
  • Observers of black swans tend to overestimate the analysable and underestimate the non-explainable. On the Survival of Rats in the Slush Pile -- Part 1
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