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badger

[baj-er] / ˈbædʒ ər /


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"By combining non-invasive genetic monitoring with sett surveys, camera traps and movement data, we can estimate local badger numbers, check the proportion of the population reached and identify significant gaps," he added.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

Tejon means “badger” in Spanish, and all it took was some Spaniard on an 1806 expedition happening upon a dead badger there for the name to stick.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

The badger also ultimately failed to make the shortlist.

From BBC Jun. 2, 2026

"He deserves better than being replaced by a badger," he said.

From Barron's Mar. 12, 2026

The badger set down the teacups and toddled out the door, glaring at Clare as she passed, then disappeared into the shimmering blue beyond.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

I took a mat next to the American black bears and American badgers, only slightly jealous that the mats next to the large-scale walrus diorama were taken.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

The lakes region Mr. Hoffman describes as “magnetic and mercurial” is home to bears, wolves, badgers, otters and a surprising variety of other creatures, yet their ways of life are being threatened.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

"They blame badgers, but there are other elements that I'm sure will cause and contribute. I don't think there's enough traceability."

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

Possibilities, subject to a public consultation, include badgers and otters as well as frogs, hedgehogs, barn owls and newts.

From Barron's Mar. 12, 2026

We have to go with Clare to a dark place—a very dark place indeed—a place where few foxes and only a handful of elk and absolutely no badgers have ever gone before.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Later headlines would say that Solanas believed Warhol “controlled her life” and that he had “legal claim” over her self-published writing, which she frequently badgered him to read.

From Salon Apr. 29, 2026

Although she performed as a hostess in Washington—she preferred it greatly to Albany—she badgered Seward almost constantly to give up politics and settle for a quiet life lawyering in Auburn.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 12, 2026

He didn't sing the song live until December 2014 after his crew badgered him to do it.

From BBC Dec. 22, 2025

For months, Meta’s algorithm badgered me to buy a little piece of plastic mounted on a magnet.

From Slate Sep. 5, 2025

They constantly badgered me to do the “James Brown” for them, a squiggling of the feet made famous by the “Godfather of Soul” himself, who back in the sixties was bigger than life.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

Costco raised its fees in 2024 — the first such increase in seven years — after months of badgering from Wall Street.

From MarketWatch Apr. 2, 2026

Those of ancient lineage may be thinking of the infamous LBJ phone call badgering the head of ABC to get college-football broadcasts for Lady Bird’s TV station.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 20, 2026

After successfully badgering his dad to take him to a local club to play on full-size tables at the age of eight, the young Hunter made the leap from table top snooker with aplomb.

From BBC Jan. 2, 2026

During the trial, throughout which Heard was subject to badgering online, Heard expressed her desire to forgo the “torture” of the ongoing litigation.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 6, 2024

This badgering soul who’d thrown his entire existence into upheaval?

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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