coyote

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Recent Examples of coyote Teams receive awards for the heaviest coyote, lightest coyote and most kills. Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025 Identifying Foxes As members of the canid family, foxes are related to dogs, coyotes, and wolves. Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2025 The improvements in the works include: The addition of coyotes and porcupines, two new species for Maymont plus habitats for them. Karri Peifer, Axios, 28 Feb. 2025 Video captured near a Northern California beach shows the first scientific documentation of coyotes preying on harbor seal pups. Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for coyote
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Noun
  • But change comes hard to an institution that counted Benjamin Franklin as the first postmaster general and uses an army of 635,000 union workers and contractors, a fleet of specialized trucks, boats, float planes and even mules to help deliver about 300 pieces of mail daily.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2025
  • The Money At the southern border, Border Patrol agents face a deadly game with cartels, smugglers and drug mules.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Driving Pa Beck back to his mansion, Reacher takes an odd swerve into family counselor mode, telling the gunrunner that his son deserves to know that the reason he’s been made to suffer these last five years is because, welp, his old man is a gunrunner.
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Cartels and guerrillas in South America are similarly dependent on border-crossing drug smugglers and gunrunners for the tools of their trade.
    Paul J. Angelo, Foreign Affairs, 21 Apr. 2020
Noun
  • Brazil raids homes of arms smugglers SAO PAULO -- Brazil's federal police on Thursday raided the homes of smugglers who brought in 2,000 assault rifles from Miami to supply a criminal organization in Rio de Janeiro, authorities said.
    Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Authorities said Tin was associated with Kang Juntao, an international turtle smuggler from Hangzhou City, China.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • As a pure runner, though, Giddens is impressive, showing off great speed and vision.
    Steve Bradshaw, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Grab it as a runner for hallways or the kitchen, or in area rug sizes for living spaces.
    Megan Schaltegger, People.com, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Childhood friends, Costello and Genovese thrived as bootleggers during Prohibition and rose to the upper ranks of the mob.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The Real McCoy line (named after a famous bootlegger of the 1920s) is distilled at Foursquare is more affordable and easier to find but doesn’t skimp on the quality.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2025

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“Coyote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coyote. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.

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