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deer

[deer] / dɪər /


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Sometimes they say what they’re thinking to a nearby donkey, deer or horse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Brundo had set up a Styrofoam deer and a bear on the back of his property to entertain archer Nugent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

I have a friend who lives amid the trees, and one bright morning, she found a half-eaten deer carcass in her yard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

"If you have an unmanaged deer population, they pretty much destroy it, grazing on young vegetation meaning trees can't grow, which has a knock-on effect to wildlife."

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Pocahontas runs up the hill, nimble as a deer on her bare feet.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

He asked, “Are there dead deers in mythology that are significant?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

“There are deers behind the El Cariso Park and the L.A. Mission College, Lopez Dam and near another county dam higher up on the Pacoima River wash,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2024

“The people we put in the game, they’re never scared. There’s no deers in the headlights,” Wood said.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2022

“There were years when we actually had so many deers donated that we ran out of money,” said Bud Thomas, the group’s longtime treasurer.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021

Mr. Polite said I throwed up so plentiful that didn’t no deers nor rabbits die in the woods for five years after.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis


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