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beaver

[bee-ver] / ˈbi vər /


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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

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

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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