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deer

[deer] / dɪər /


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Volunteers on Wednesday rescued a terrified baby deer from a garden.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

Faster-moving wildlife like deer can in theory flee the immediate threat of flames, but do not always make it.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

In 2024, he was working in deer management on an estate where he suspects the dead hares had been killed.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

At a third factory, housed in renovated Cold War-era buildings in a forest populated with deer, women with long painted nails assemble tiny components for igniters, which trigger the guncotton in the propellant.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

“Chester gave us her calf. I named her Fawn ’cause she looks like a baby deer I saw once, over to Glendive.”

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

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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