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[kat] / kæt /




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The Dodgers’ steadiest pitcher and coolest cat actually seemed miffed on the mound when Smith didn’t challenge — as shocking a sight as his early exit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 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

At the foot of one of the trees was a ratatoska, the size of a cat, lying on its side.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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

"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

“Great Writers” paints portraits of the mewling kittens, dexterous mousers and lazy lap cats who happen to have witnessed the birth of some of humanity’s favorite texts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Along with pigs and beavers, cats often served as ingredients in human medicaments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The ring closest to them had a steel cage in the center, which Chase assumed was for the big cats.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

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

“That’s well, let us have it up, and get it catted at once, if you please.”

From Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Harry Collingwood

Thus the Island Princess fell off by the head, as we catted and fished the anchor; then took the wind in her sails and slipped slowly out toward the open sea.

From The Mutineers by Charles Boardman Hawes

We paid out on the chain by which we swung; hove in on the other; catted the anchor; and hove short on the first.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

The next instant, Mr. Leach reported the anchor catted and fished.

From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by James Fenimore Cooper

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

“Have you got any of it yourself?” asked the patient, catting him short.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford

They were heave-ho-ing, stopping and unstopping, pawling, catting, and fishing, for three hours; and the sails hung from the yards all the afternoon, and were not furled until sundown.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana


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