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“zoo”
“zoo”
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Real recordings from our search library that contain “zoo”.
Public domain
“Many of the workers were immigrants and wanted to hold a big parade like the ones in Europe. So, they dressed in costumes and borrowed some animals from the zoo.”
General American
From "Thanksgiving: An American Tradition" (2016). VOA Learning English. Public domain (US government work). — “Thanksgiving: An American Tradition”
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“as in save Z as in Zoo”
RP
From English with Lucy (opens in a new tab) — “How to Learn a British Accent (Modern RP)” · 636s
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“Zoo that we could go with them to see”
RP
From BBC (opens in a new tab) — “Interview with David Attenborough — Attenborough at 90” · 175s
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“and that was the origin of the zoo quest”
RP
From BBC (opens in a new tab) — “Interview with David Attenborough — Attenborough at 90” · 189s
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“checking through some of the film cans from zoo quest”
RP
From BBC (opens in a new tab) — “Interview with David Attenborough — Attenborough at 90” · 202s
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“the London Zoo that were bought in up to Alexandra Palace in the middle of the”
RP
From BBC (opens in a new tab) — “Interview with David Attenborough — Attenborough at 90” · 150s
Open this clip in RP: the London Zoo that were bought in up to Alexandra Palace in the middle of theSearch our indexed caption corpus for real-context examples. Coverage varies by word and accent, so the results page may have no matching clip.
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