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beaver

[bee-ver] / ˈbi vər /


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"If the pair remains together, they could eventually establish their own family group and help strengthen the beaver population across the estate," he added.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

"One beaver wetland won't solve all of our drought problems," he said.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

Soccer fans visiting a very large gas station for the first time… carry-on BBQ sandwiches & beaver nuggets?

From Salon Jun. 28, 2026

In October 2007, while scouring Google Earth, he discovered the largest beaver dam on the planet—a 2,700-foot-long structure in northern Alberta with a 17-acre lake backed up behind it.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

No real war could draw Leper voluntarily away from his snails and beaver dams.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

"We have to make sure that we are working really closely with people who live, work and manage the areas that we're thinking about putting beavers," said Mega Adamou, of Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

Conservationists are hopeful that two bonding beavers who were released into the wild earlier in 2026 could help to strengthen the population of the creatures.

From BBC Sep. 5, 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

Flooding two years ago during Hurricane Helene swept beavers inland from the Ogeechee River.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Some leaves landed on the pond and became snacks for the beavers who were busily preparing for winter.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

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 Theodore Roosevelt

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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