beaver
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Burtschell said the charity was hopeful the animals would explore, establish territories and start to form the relationships that were "so important" to a healthy beaver population.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Science class starts… NOW!” the company posted on Facebook, noting that a moose has 6-foot antlers “for defending territory,” while a beaver has a flat tail “for slapping water.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Forestry England's Richard Boles said they initially thought the female beaver had given birth to only one kit, before video footage revealed there were two more.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Soccer fans visiting a very large gas station for the first time… carry-on BBQ sandwiches & beaver nuggets?
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
Two days later, halfway there, he arrived in heavy rain at the beaver ponds that blocked access to the west bank of the Teklanika River.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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Flooding two years ago during Hurricane Helene swept beavers inland from the Ogeechee River.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
By the time the beavers were trapped and their dams dismantled, a few dozen acres of trees were dead and too dangerous to remove.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
And in its forests and on its grasslands, tule elk and mule deer graze, while bobcats and coyotes hunt for rabbits and mountain beavers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The 11 released beavers had been relocated under licence by NatureScot from farmland in Tayside.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Roz roamed across the island and checked in with the beavers and the bears and all the friends she’d missed.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
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If Musk had quietly beavered away on something that might have helped, that would have been one thing, but that isn’t Musk’s style – he happily admits to his own arrogance.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2018
For two months, they beavered away at the problem.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2014
There were issues of "privacy" and "commercial confidentiality" here apparently, as big hackers beavered away untouched.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2013
"They have beavered away trying this and trying that and the formulations have changed over the last 50 years, but not radically."
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2011
"I cut forty-nine, and the boss," he added dryly, not realizing that Roosevelt was within hearing—"the boss he beavered down seventeen."
From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn
I didn’t set out to leverage AI, beavering away in the background while I sleep, to set my priorities every morning, and even help me regulate my physical and mental health.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
A detective, in the form of a Firmin scholar, is beavering around.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2023
Take the method that Ian Chen at Deakin University in Australia and colleagues are currently beavering away on.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2022
Adam Le Doux, the creator of the game-making software, was working as a programmer at Microsoft while beavering away on creative projects in his spare time.
From The Verge ● Mar. 7, 2022
Thank'ee, Hurry; thank'ee, with all my heart—but I do a little beavering for myself as occasions offer.
From The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
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