beaver
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There was: the Thirsty Beaver on Germantown Road, a biker bar with a stuffed beaver stationed at the front door.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The rest-stop chain is suing rivals over its trademarked beaver.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 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
I once saw a beaver come out of a hole on the ice near his lodge in the middle of winter and stand off four wolves.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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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
Puttock said when he started researching beavers a decade ago he was not thinking about wildfires but flood management.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
The 11 released beavers had been relocated under licence by NatureScot from farmland in Tayside.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 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 Roz and Brightbill walked around the pond, they passed hundreds of chewed-up tree stumps, proof that the beavers needed a constant supply of wood.
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
A detective, in the form of a Firmin scholar, is beavering around.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2023
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
Hence a small team of civil servants is beavering away on a "detailed prospectus" for independence, to give the electorate an "informed choice".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2021
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
"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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