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
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
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
It resembled the beaver lodge, but it was larger, a great dome of wood and mud and leaves.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
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As semi-aquatic mammals, beavers are known for building dams that create ponds and wetlands.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The beavers, which live on the Holnicote Estate, Exmoor, Somerset, were captured on trail cameras grooming each other.
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
They looked like beavers, the water lipping about their chins, yelling.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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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
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
"Tain t as bad as beavering," answered Sam.
From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Ernest Thompson Seton
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