How To Use black swan In A Sentence
- Other water birds include grey and mallard ducks, black swans, black shags.
- Last weekend about 25 people walked around Lismore Lake to celebrate Council's decision to leave the lake as a bird habitat, and it was a great pleasure to see four black swans again joining the jacanas and other bird life on the lake.
- Since the financial crisis, investors have increasingly been looking for ways to hedge against so-called Black Swan events, a term popularized by scholar Nassim Nicholas Taleb in 2007, which describes events that are hard to predict and beyond the realm of normal expectations. Currency-Based Hedging Gains Favor
- She completed the difficult series of fouettes in the coda of the Black Swan pas de deux which even more senior ballerinas sometimes cannot manage as well.
- The natural history of Australia was little recorded in early Dutch voyages of the seventeenth century, although there were observations of wallaby, quokka, and black swan.
- He is explaining -- sometimes elliptically, aphoristically, through metaphors, jokes and old folk wisdom -- why "the economic crisis has barely begun," why indeed we seem to have entered the Age of the Black Swan. Christopher Lydon: Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The "Fragility" Crisis is Just Begun
- Our Black Swan was, according to Lloyd, an annual visitor to the East Pond for at least a few years.
- The same player added his second and Black Swans fourth to complete the scoring five minutes into the second period.
- In a recent Huffington Post piece, "Planning for the Unimaginable," Terry Newell asserts we must get better at planning for and reacting to so-called "Black Swans" (the term popularized by Nassim Taleb for seemingly unpredictable extreme events). Kenneth A. Posner: Planning for a World of Black Swans
- PREVIOUSLY: Natalie Portman looked lovely at a photocall for 'Black Swan' Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival, but she was careful not to pose next to boyfriend Benjamin Millepied. Natalie Portman & Boyfriend Benjamin Keep Distance At 'Black Swan' Photocall (PHOTOS)