fawn
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She isn’t a figure of pity or depravity, just a woman with the unsteadiness of a fawn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
They write because they want others to fawn over the content.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
This is not a preying tiger in the Indian jungle - but a happily mooching Dalmatian dog in Dagnam Park, Romford, unknowingly closing in on a days-old fallow deer fawn.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025
He’s self-satisfied and loves to have people fawn over him, but his star is still nascent enough for Oliver to retain some naivete.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2025
Or a baby fawn that the doe had left hidden in the tall grass.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
In recent days, AFP journalists have seen roe deer and fawns looking disorientated in the middle of scorched and barren woodland.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
During that time when the mother is out feeding, the fawns have been known to hide in underbrush, according to the Park Service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2025
“Bears, coyotes and bobcats may take fawns, but humans are by and large the only predators of deer.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2021
When food sources are plentiful, female deer produce more milk and fawns grow faster, Wolfer said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2021
The two fawns were still young enough to have speckled coats, but as the summer went on they would lose their spots and become as brown as their mother.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
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