henhouse
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Is this a fox in the henhouse scenario, they ask?
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
When finally she ran out of the henhouse with the exciting news, her mother did not scold her but patiently listened to her daughter’s account of her first scientific observation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
It is relevant because trusting the very agency that has been responsible for the myriad problems plaguing Arizona’s death-penalty system is a classic instance of letting the fox guard the henhouse.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2025
Public outcry around the report likens a Pentagon self-investigation to charging the fox to guard the henhouse.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2024
“You have to mean it, Brother Wolf. No running off to the henhouse for snacks.”
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
And there’s always the frightening prospect that wild birds could carry the virus into the henhouses needed in vaccine production.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2024
While you can buy premade henhouses for as little as a few hundred dollars, most are flimsy.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023
Giving chickens access to pasture rather than confining them to henhouses is considered more humane treatment.
From Reuters ● Aug. 9, 2022
I envied friends with henhouses by the garden, amiable Araucanas and elegant Australorps clucking and foraging bugs.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2022
Finding them was rather like an Easter egg hunt, because many of the hens preferred to lay under bushes, rather than inside the henhouses.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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