How To Use Black swan In A Sentence
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Other water birds include grey and mallard ducks, black swans, black shags.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Our Black Swan was, according to Lloyd, an annual visitor to the East Pond for at least a few years.
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The same player added his second and Black Swans fourth to complete the scoring five minutes into the second period.
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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
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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)
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Dah's de ole black swan a-swimmin ', ain't she got a' awfu 'neck?
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There were masses of ducks, black swans, tremendous numbers of ibis, and a huge congregation of plovers.
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More than 95 per cent of ringed black swans recovered during their first year of life were recovered on their natal lake.
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Observers of black swans tend to overestimate the analysable and underestimate the non-explainable.
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Rush, offering to bet that NYC won't be under water or Greenland won't melt, is betting against particular black swans, succumbing to the same fallacy that the global warming narrators have.
Overconfidence, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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But there is no Hollywood studio yet involved, at least in part because Mr. Medavoy - who as producer or executive has been involved with films as complicated as "Black Swan," "Shutter Island" and "Amadeus" - has been around long enough to know that difficult stories, at least in their early stages, are best fostered outside the studio walls.
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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.
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From 1.30 pm Joan Whitehead sings jazz standards and your jazz Sunday winds up in jam session style at the Black Swan, Peasholme Green.
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Black swans, pelicans, white faced heron and mullet jumping out of the water were some of the attractions that were snapped by the budding photographers.
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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.
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Among the more interesting of these are blackboy, also called grass-tree, a black-boled liliaceous tree with a spearlike flowerstalk and reedlike leaves resembling fuzzy hair or a grass skirt (but in New Zealand the same word refers to a type of peach), and black swan, a descriptive term.
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she danced the part of the Black Swan very lyrically
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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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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
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The refreshingly younger torch-bearers of York jazz continue their regular jam sessions on Sunday night at the Black Swan, Peasholme Green.
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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
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Ai iz reeding The Black Swan buk, tawks a bit confuzully abawt eek oNOM eeks, an pre deek shuns.
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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
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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.
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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
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When I first visited the Lake in July 2000, there were over 200 coot and great numbers of other birds, including 40 Black Swans.
