coyote

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Recent Examples of coyote Raccoons, coyotes, spotted hyenas, and humans are all known to adapt their hunting strategies. Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2024 Other prey species, especially for younger cougars, include raccoons, coyotes, rabbits, hares, small rodents, and occasionally pets and livestock (e.g. goats, sheep, and chickens). Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 18 Dec. 2024 Pic follows a family fighting for their lives against a pack of crazed coyotes during a raging wildfire in the Hollywood Hills. Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 13 Dec. 2024 Soldiers and Kings, Jason De León A riveting work of narrative nonfiction, Jason De León’s book provides a window into the world of smugglers, known as coyotes, who guide Central American migrants across the border to the U.S. Annabel Gutterman, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for coyote 
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Noun
  • The shoes in the collection include a pair of trainer sneakers, the Sunset Flat sandal and 6AM flat mule.
    Nick Hall, WWD, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Its drinks include more than 16 beers on tap and a seasonally rotating cocktail menu that includes old fashioneds, mules and sangria.
    Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • Her father’s work as a gunrunner and pilot led the British authorities to throw him in jail, weeks after Ms. Mehta was born.
    Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • From Mexico: She and her daughter were locked without food in a hotel room for a day, where smugglers were demanding an additional thousand dollars before the two of them would be allowed to continue to the border.
    Jordan Salama, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The 50-year-old is the latest to be sentenced in a network of human remains smugglers that stretched from the morgue of the Harvard University Medical School to an Arkansas mortuary.
    Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Prior to the 2023 season, Major League Baseball announced a spate of rules designed to make stealing bases easier — instituting penalties for pitchers who take too much time between pitches, and fail to pick off a runner within three attempts.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
  • As a runner, his value in the red zone was clear as day.
    Derrik Klassen, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • This episode, in which Prohibition is reinstated in Springfield and Homer becomes a bootlegger known as the Beer Baron, pursued by an Elliot Ness-type crime fighter named Rex Banner, is one such episode.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
  • In this modern fairy tale, McCullers creates the perfect love triangle: Miss Amelia the bootlegger, her ex-convict ex-husband, and the trickster Cousin Lymon.
    The Week US, theweek, 5 Nov. 2024

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“Coyote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coyote. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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