badger

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

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

From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026

BBC Scotland News understands the operation was delayed by a badger sett being within the search area.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025

Ms Townsend studied and attached GPS collars to the Sierra Nevada red fox and the Pacific fisher, which is related to a badger, in attempts to track and preserve the species.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2025

It seemed the badger did not belong in the realm of Progress.

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

Wildlife intervention involves actions to tackle the maintenance and spread of bTB in badgers, which are implicated in the spread of the disease.

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 to a dark place—a very dark place indeed—a place where few badgers and only a handful of weasels and absolutely no jackrabbits have ever gone before.

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

In another encounter, he says, a woman appeared to have been "badgered into it".

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

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

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

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025

In the classroom he cajoled and badgered and tormented and loved.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

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

Her Bertha is the kindly, nurturing counterweight to Seth’s badgering boisterousness, a quality Morris infuses with just enough avuncular affection.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2025

It was very bad-mannered—very bad-mannered indeed—to tell a badger to stop badgering.

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