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Recent Examples of tomcatAs an actor, Branagh has a voice that’s high, excitable, and light, and his physicality possesses a tomcat sneakiness.—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024 Photo: Mattel and Netflix If Ryan’s tomcat vapidity represents a stereotypical male weakness, Raquelle’s backstabbing materialism plays with its female equivalent.—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024 The tomcat had been spotted wandering with a wound on his chest.—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2024 Note that the scent does not draw squirrels, tomcats, or teenage boys.—James Shreeve, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 The only good feral tomcat is one with an arrow through its head!—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2023 Her big red tomcat, Rex, lolls at her feet.—Suzanne Van Atten, ajc, 12 Oct. 2013 The eggs were fertilized with sperm from a non-fluorescent tomcat and implanted in female cats, and five fluorescent green kittens were born, out of a total of eleven embryos (three now survive, as one was stillborn and another died during birth).—Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2011 That’s because her mother was gray and white and her father was a big orange tomcat.—Karen Jones, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2022
In another room, a 14-year-old tabby cat named Milo, dropped off by his owner on Jan. 7, poked his paw through his crate, wanting pets from Gaby Solingen, a volunteer.
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Hailey Branson-Potts,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
Nashville Tennessean When her grey tabby died after 24 years, well, that was the final straw.
The week’s biggest stories Presidential debate Biden’s verbal stumbles, Trump’s ‘morals of an alley cat’: 6 debate takeaways.
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Kevinisha Walker,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2024
Like Selina Kyle being nibbled into Catwoman by her alley cats, Doug’s origin story involves a nurturing puppy pile and a preternatural ability to communicate with the army of mutts who, hilariously, do his bidding like henchmen in a gangster movie.
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