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deer

[deer] / dɪər /


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Booming deer populations in The Broads are becoming a growing issue as the animals can cause damage to the environment through grazing.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

In order to unlock space for thousands of homes, developers would pay money that could create new wetlands, fund deer culls and restore rivers.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

A treatment to eliminate ticks on deer, like a tick collar on dogs, shows promise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

But the western blacklegged tick, known as the deer tick in most of the country, is common in the state’s chaparral, grasslands and woods, and can transmit Lyme disease, babesiosis and other pathogens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

The canoes are filled with bread, fish, and meat: turkey, squirrel, deer, and raccoon.

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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