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Canary bird

British pronunciation/kənˈeəɹi bˈɜːd/
American pronunciation/kənˈɛɹi bˈɜːd/
Canary bird
[NOUN]
1

any of several small Old World finches

synonyms : canary
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Examples
1But the gist of it is that the refugees are likened to canary birds that were brought over by Spanish sailors in the 17th century.
2The Big Bird puppet is over eight feet tall, and it turns out that they didn’t plan to fly grotesquely oversized canary birds when designing the Space Shuttle.
3And the author argues that these canary birds are going to disturb the English utopia.
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