badger
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"You can definitely see badger activity and we know that they are carriers, badger numbers should be monitored and see how that the effects of that in the spread."
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Tejon means “badger” in Spanish, and all it took was some Spaniard on an 1806 expedition happening upon a dead badger there for the name to stick.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
"He deserves better than being replaced by a badger," he said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026
BBC Scotland News understands the operation was delayed by a badger sett being within the search area.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025
The badger looked as though she was trying not to laugh, her lips curling around her fangs.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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Vaccination only - badgers in a defined area will be vaccinated without prior testing.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Possibilities, subject to a public consultation, include badgers and otters as well as frogs, hedgehogs, barn owls and newts.
From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026
The proposed openings in the wall, about the size of a piece of paper, would provide passage for animals like bobcats, badgers and even female mountain lions and their young.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026
“We’ve planted 20,000 trees around the site, we’ve replaced habitats and homes for protected species like bats, newts and badgers and created wildflower meadows specifically for wildlife foraging,” the company said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
She knew there were a few jackals, bushpigs, honey badgers, and porcupines.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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Later headlines would say that Solanas believed Warhol “controlled her life” and that he had “legal claim” over her self-published writing, which she frequently badgered him to read.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026
When Stolz was just 11 years old in Wisconsin, he badgered his then-coach, Jeff Brand, into letting him tag along in an “ice marathon” workout—100 laps and 40,000 meters, or just shy of 25 miles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
He didn't sing the song live until December 2014 after his crew badgered him to do it.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025
For months, Meta’s algorithm badgered me to buy a little piece of plastic mounted on a magnet.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
The following morning, the Plain Dealer would publish a story mentioning Ed Lim’s “aggressive” tactics, how he had badgered poor Mrs. McCullough to the point of tears.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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Costco raised its fees in 2024 — the first such increase in seven years — after months of badgering from Wall Street.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 2026
She added: "Your constant pestering, badgering and, eventually, attendance at their home address on a dark evening in December was unwarranted."
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025
And then there are the bit players they run into throughout who, in Mr. Panahi’s acidic vision of a desperate society, tend to end interactions by badgering for a tip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
“The jury sees this, and it ends up risking looking like you’re just badgering this woman,” Haberman said.
From Salon ● May 10, 2024
She smiled at him as if he were a badgering but endearing little brother and he laughed.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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