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Recent Examples of ermine
Along with reintroduction efforts, the project aimed to reduce threats from European stoats, also known as ermines.
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Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
If your ermine frosting is too runny, check the temperature.
—Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2023
In another historical nod, the ermine fur used along the edges of the robe and the fur cape is literally from a coronation of the past.
—Monique Jessen, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
Not to mention encounters with fellow Plaza tenants and visitors through the years: Tennessee Williams, at the market by the orange juice, in a full-length ermine, or Richard Burton, down in the health club, reclining on a chaise longue.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
If your ermine frosting is too runny, check the temperature.
—Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2023
In another historical nod, the ermine fur used along the edges of the robe and the fur cape is literally from a coronation of the past.
—Monique Jessen, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
Not to mention encounters with fellow Plaza tenants and visitors through the years: Tennessee Williams, at the market by the orange juice, in a full-length ermine, or Richard Burton, down in the health club, reclining on a chaise longue.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ermine
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Last week, Bieber stopped for coffee wearing a faux mink coat from Ralph Lauren’s fall 1995 collection.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
21 Jan. 2025
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The women start to squirm when Silky Johnson (Dave Chappelle) comes out in a mink coat holding a golden goblet.—
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
18 Jan. 2025
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The best Christmas cookie tins are filled with colorful sugar cookies, sprinkled gingerbread, linzers, spritzes, shortbread or sables, crinkles or crackles, even wedding cookies or special chocolate chip cookies — because why not?—
Betty Hallock,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Dec. 2024
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Madison gives you 100-percent of this on a fake silver platter, dressed up in real Russian sables.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
16 Oct. 2024
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Homeostasis and Stability: Like beavers and wolves, leaders create balance by managing both innovation (growth) and stability (process).—
Scott Hutcheson,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
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The short-faced bear went extinct around 11,000 years, at the end of the Pleistocene, along with most of the large mammals that lived alongside it, including all the large carnivores listed above, as well as giant ground sloths, mammoths, mastodons, giant beavers, camels, and giant armadillos.—
Sara Novak,
Discover Magazine,
2 Dec. 2024
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This acquisition will improve the habitat for Wisconsin’s endangered American marten, which has been facing a dwindling habitat.—
Noël Fletcher,
Forbes,
8 Dec. 2024
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With their larger competitors out of the way, the smaller, less numerous martens had some breathing room.—
Siddhant Pusdekar,
Journal Sentinel,
5 July 2024
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For fine dining, head to Forklift, where your rabbit will be cooked three ways and paired with cauliflower cream.—
Emma John,
AFAR Media,
7 Jan. 2025
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It is known for its slightly maniacal logo of a rabbit with pink ears and its teeth hanging over a skull-and-crossbones and offers men’s and children’s wear in a variety of categories including polos, T-shirts, pants, sportswear and accessories.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
WWD,
7 Jan. 2025
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Healing the ecosystem so the otters could come back had the win-win effect of helping manage an invasive species.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA TODAY,
20 Dec. 2024
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The department said that while encounters with otters are rare, the animals can be territorial.—
Brie Stimson,
Fox News,
14 Sep. 2024
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Imagine a pale roly-poly the size of a muskrat wandering the seafloor.—
Amanda Kooser,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
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Their diet includes muskrats, a primary predator of freshwater mussels, which are now confirmed to carry radium.—
Kevin Lynn,
Newsweek,
7 Jan. 2025
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Lucas retains his hold on the lucrative smack market largely because of his ability to not attract attention; his eventual downfall is hastened by the regrettable decision to stand out in a crowd for once and rock a chinchilla fur coat and matching hat at a prizefight.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
1 Dec. 2024
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While our guide talked, viscachas — Peruvian chinchillas — scurried atop the walls and a quartet of wild llamas gathered on one of the lawns.—
Monisha Rajesh,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Oct. 2024
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“Ermine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ermine. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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