chinchilla
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“The day after she arrived,” Ms. Smith wrote, “the fur coats, including one sable, one chinchilla and a mink, were missing,” apparently stolen from the actress’s hotel room.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
The scene captured on video is among the findings from an undercover investigation into conditions on Romania’s chinchilla fur farms, carried out last year by the animal welfare charity Humane Society International.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
TL:DR: do not lick your chinchilla while you have monkeypox.
From The Verge ● Aug. 5, 2022
In this case, the wild- type allele is dominant over all the others, chinchilla is incompletely dominant over Himalayan and albino, and Himalayan is dominant over albino.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
I’m early, as usual—partly to avoid bumping into Eddie in the hallway but also because I was hoping to hold Charles the chinchilla for a couple of minutes before class starts.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
They were the first rodents to ever set foot on the continent, where they evolved into well-known groups like guinea pigs, chinchillas, capybaras and porcupines.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
The SEC has argued that the test -- which has been applied to investments in everything from whiskey casks to chinchillas -- depends on the economic realities of transactions, not the labels applied to them.
From Reuters ● Jun. 21, 2023
“You weren’t just dealing with moving 400 chinchillas, which is not as hard, because they’re all one species so you can find new homes more easily for them,” Peet said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2022
Over decades, the courts have ruled that securities law applies to a wide variety of financial products, including contracts for the sale of chinchillas.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
“First the business with your damned chinchillas and then my daughter. I’ve had enough. Go get your things, because you’re coming with me to the city. You’re going to marry Blanca.”
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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