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Recent Examples of mink
The people who dwell in them, as a rule, don’t have mink coats to drown.
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
However, the baleens that exhibit flight — blue, Bryde’s, sei, fin, and mink whales — have more slender bodies, built for quick escapes, according to the study which was led by Trevor Branch, a professor of aquatic and fishery sciences at the UW.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
Europe is the world’s leading producer of mink pelts.
—Byjon Cohen, science.org, 5 Sep. 2024
They’re made of silk, mink or synthetic fibers and attach to the ends of your natural lashes.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
However, the baleens that exhibit flight — blue, Bryde’s, sei, fin, and mink whales — have more slender bodies, built for quick escapes, according to the study which was led by Trevor Branch, a professor of aquatic and fishery sciences at the UW.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
Europe is the world’s leading producer of mink pelts.
—Byjon Cohen, science.org, 5 Sep. 2024
They’re made of silk, mink or synthetic fibers and attach to the ends of your natural lashes.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mink
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The park has incredibly diverse terrain—coastal sand dunes, dense forests, meandering rivers, barrier islands—and fauna such as moose, beavers, and river otters.—
Steve Lyons,
AFAR Media,
20 Mar. 2025
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Painter and Jensen have seen beavers, muskrats, pond turtles, deer and black bears roaming the grounds.—
David Caraccio,
Sacramento Bee,
8 Mar. 2025
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Painter and Jensen have seen beavers, muskrats, pond turtles, deer and black bears roaming the grounds.—
David Caraccio,
Sacramento Bee,
8 Mar. 2025
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Anchored to what is called a seawall, a wetland ecosystem for a diverse range of wildlife — including beavers, muskrats, snapping turtles and all types of insects, bats, and fish — has been created by mostly volunteers.—
Rick Kogan,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Feb. 2025
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Yet, ballots were cast even during the Civil War and WWII so the MAGA crowd would have to pull a pretty big rabbit, like the Insurrection Act, out of the hat to break precedent and award Trump a third term.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
30 Mar. 2025
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Wednesday, April 9 Art and Soul: The monthly craft series for adults aged 50-plus offers the opportunity to make a decorative wooden rabbit from 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 9 at Community Park – Willow Room 306 at 13094 Civic Center Drive in Poway.—
Pomerado News,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Mar. 2025
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In August 2024, Wildlands Network launched daily roadkill surveys along US 64, cruising the highway and counting dead deer, bears, snakes, turtles, otters, bobcats, and other critters.—
Ben Goldfarb,
Vox,
14 Mar. 2025
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Animals whose parents struggle to feed them in The Americas include: bobcats, jaguars, bears, otters, whales, baby sharks doo doo doo doo doo doo, more bears, alligators, more bears, harpy eagles, penguins andtamarin monkeys.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Feb. 2025
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At the same time, marten populations shot up and the researchers began to see their scat in new areas.—
Siddhant Pusdekar,
Journal Sentinel,
5 July 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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One shopper, Lulu Dinh of Jersey City, N.J., bought her chinchilla coat years ago from 1stDibs.—
Dolly Faibyshev,
New York Times,
16 Feb. 2025
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For many years, Ken raised chinchillas at their rural Litchfield homestead.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Marvel Rocket and Baby Groot Minifigure Recreate some of Rocket’s adventures from Guardians of the Galaxy with this buildable and poseable figure of the beloved racoon.—
Mia Huelsbeck,
People.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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The Ledge Light Health District said that a racoon found on Cedar Drive in the town of North Stonington was tested and found to be positive for rabies on December 9, 2024.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
12 Dec. 2024
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The Harford County Health Department issued two rabies alerts this week— one on Tuesday for a raccoon that tested positive in the Forest Hill area, and another on Wednesday for a positive raccoon in Joppa.—
Brennan Stewart,
Baltimore Sun,
27 Mar. 2025
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Common raccoons, for instance, are cataloged as nocturnal in the scientific literature, but hundreds of observations from around the Americas showed instances of raccoon activity in the day, night, and twilight.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Mink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mink. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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