gadfly in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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In political retirement he was a radio show host, author, and political gadfly.
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All albatrosses, procellarids (gadfly petrels and shearwaters) and storm petrels use the oil.
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Gadfly petrels often feed on the wing, snapping prey without landing on the water.
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The absence of skuas, gulls and other predatory birds on tropical islands is why some shearwaters and two species of gadfly petrel can nest in the open.
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The fulmarine petrels and some tropical gadfly petrels and shearwaters are surface nesters, as are all the albatrosses.
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In fact is a fine little gadfly, representing an enormous effort for one man and his wife.
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Largely according to species, they also are known variously as warble flies, heel flies, and gadflies.
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Li usually plays the role of a political gadfly, and his campaign was largely symbolic.
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Finding the regime unsympathetic to his ideas, he adopted the role of intellectual gadfly.
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This may have been one of the earliest descriptions of gadfly ethics.
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