beaver
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Among other things, the beaver and moose are both “facing right with wide eyes and a smile,” it notes in a lawsuit filed this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Soccer fans visiting a very large gas station for the first time… carry-on BBQ sandwiches & beaver nuggets?
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
Montreal’s mascot was Amik, the industrious Canadian beaver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
There is no guarantee reintroduction of the Eurasian beaver will go ahead, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust said, and any next steps will require licensing approval from Natural England.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
I let him in, feed him a chunk of beaver fat, and even rub him between the ears for a bit.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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It will be spent on projects on the River Stour, with Kent the home to England's largest population of wild beavers, and ancient woodland at the Blean, near Canterbury.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Now a protected species, beavers were once widespread in Britain, but they were hunted to near-extinction by the 16th Century.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
As an ecologist in Canada, Mr. Thie was fascinated by how beavers transform ecosystems through dam networks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
In Yellowstone National Park, their return has been praised with reducing the overabundant elk population and allowing decimated trees such as willows and aspen to recover, which subsequently brought the return of beavers and songbirds.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2026
They trapped and hunted moose, caribou, otters, and beavers; they speared fish and clams and mussels.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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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
He is a most industrious small chopper, and the other day gnawed down, or as the children call it, "beavered" down, a misshapen tulip tree, which was about fifty feet high.
From Letters to His Children by Roosevelt, Theodore
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
Hewlett, meanwhile, has been beavering away at his home in Paris.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2020
“What I remember is this rivetingly beautiful dark-haired creature beavering away in her cubbyhole,” said Barbara Jakobson, a longtime Museum of Modern Art trustee.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2019
Still, alphas from Yale or Harvard aren’t likely to be happy beavering away on projects that never reach fruition.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2017
Thank'ee, Hurry; thank'ee, with all my heart—but I do a little beavering for myself as occasions offer.
From The Deerslayer by Cooper, James Fenimore
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