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[kat] / kæt /




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“We’re watching the wind. I’m getting my cat carriers ready just in case,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Ten years of the “pussyhat”: One of the most memorable—and controversial—symbols of the resistance to Trump’s first term in office was a knitted pink hat made to look like cat ears.

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2026

As police and protesters engage in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, social media savvy students are turning ingenuity into a form of resistance.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Altai is a rare Amur tiger, also known as a Siberian tiger, the largest big cat in the world.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

He liked the name Jerry, because it was the same as that funny mouse in the old cartoons, the one who always outsmarted the cat.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold

“People don’t believe that. When I am not doing politics, I just want to be home with my cats, my partner and just try to disconnect from the world.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

"It's very expensive. Seven of my cats were due for vaccine this month and you can imagine the cost of that," she told the BBC.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

She told the BBC it was "just really good to have something nearby that I can get to" with her six cats.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Full of endearing quirks, the cats in Ms. Fullerton’s book serve as crucial wells of inspiration, encouraging authors to exercise their talents in unexpected ways.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

It took all day to get the cats down and the dogs back, and there were two hamsters that never did turn up.

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson

Last week, he was catted by the Association of German Friends of Cats, and by Herr Victor Fraenkl, chairman of the German League for Animal Rights, one of the Association's principal spokesmen.

From Time Magazine Archive

And then word came from the captain, demanding to know what the delay was about in getting the anchor catted, so that the Georgetown might proceed.

From Two Boys of the Battleship or For the Honor of Uncle Sam by Frank V. Webster

This work may have occupied us four hours; after which, the stream-anchor was hove up, catted and fished.

From Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

Before the sun was fairly clear of the sea, the anchor had been catted, and the Queen was moving gracefully northeastward under snowy topsails.

From The Black Buccaneer by Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader

Still another kind of chimney was the "catted" chimney, made of "cats" or rolled-up strips of clay mixed with straw, and placed closely together within a framework of wooden posts and rails.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman

He was a Viet Nam Vet who had been "catting" on the city streets for years.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2016

The lads up front have got their sprint on at the top and after some catting and mousing they finish the San Mauro Cilento in the following order: Wauters, Boaro and Taborre.

From The Guardian ● May 6, 2013

We’ve been laying our voices down, catting and scatting, and following variations of the same notes for so long we didn’t always know we were doing it.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Martin will see to the catting of the anchor.”

From The Missing Merchantman by William Heysham Overend

The subsequent "catting" and "fishing" of the big "mud-hook" was all a confused dream to me.

From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Frank T. Bullen


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