fawn
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The people at the home said they found the fawn in the wild and admitted to keeping it for more than three weeks, the department said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
He has no siblings, no schoolmates and, after the death of the only other boy within walking distance, no friends—but he has Flag, an orphaned fawn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 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
One of his favorite moves is to humiliate people who are dumb enough to fawn over him.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2025
He had little chance to study it, for Medwyn appeared, walking deliberately across the field; the fawn trotted beside him, the three wolves followed.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
The publisher fawns; the public adores it; an awards committee takes notice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
However, biologists say that’s not nearly enough, given that each doe produces two fawns each year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2023
“Bears, coyotes and bobcats may take fawns, but humans are by and large the only predators of deer.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2021
Prepare to suppress your gag reflex while a nation fawns yet again over the 44-year-old Brady’s apparent immortality and Belichick’s tactical brilliance.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
I imagined her singing lullabies to an audience of fawns and bluebirds.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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