fox
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Minutes later, after giving me her son’s number and him mine, Fox messaged me: “Hey Charlie this is Joshua fox my mom sent your information to me.”
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Among the highest-priced lots were paintings featuring The Clangers and Noggin the Nog, while a signed Basil Brush artwork, showing the cheerful fox chatting to a mole, sold for £6,000.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Yet the ancient Greek poet Archilochus, who gave us the parable of the fox and the hedgehog, suggests that the hedgehog’s one big trick may defeat all the tricks the fox can try.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Having the event in November will allow people to go all-out, said his performance partner Krizel Guiral, or "Zhel", dressed as Youko Kurama, the red-headed fox demon from the same Japanese manga and anime classic.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
The fox bounced around the table, equally enthralled.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
The changing climate is creating unliveable conditions for some species, like native flying foxes which are dropping out of trees in their thousands due to extreme temperatures.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Leaving a trail of destruction in their wake are introduced pests: fire ants, cane toads, rabbits, foxes, feral cats.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The researchers note that the apparent effects on vegetation, foxes, and rabbits could also have been influenced by environmental factors such as changes in fog patterns or temperature.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026
Looking out their back windows, they can see foxes, deer and possums in neighboring woodlands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
The two foxes had been traveling for hours, but Gray was slow and rested often, so they had only just reached the valley basin.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
All that remained of those days, apart from the stories, were these exotic bottles, their labels brittle and foxed.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2017
Chelsea, who had numerous chances in a rain-hit first half, struck back through Juan Mata just after the break when his shot from the edge of the box following a fine move foxed the goalkeeper.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2012
For all those millions of people who were foxed and bamboozled at every turn by the ticketing lottery, following the games via these streams is the closest thing there is to actually being there.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2012
This is not good, but we have found reference to the circumstance that this book is usually — if not always — found in a foxed condition.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2011
I wonder what he had in mind for you to do with it; as you couldn’t read it, I’m foxed as to what he was a thinking.”
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
In most cases, the originals were replaced with high-quality copies that mimicked even their foxing — a sign of a sophisticated operation.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2024
If a fox isn’t foxing, is she even a fox?
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2020
While the blues lurk everywhere in Raitt’s work, she—like George—avoids taking long solos, instead foxing her slide work in and around and behind her vocals.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 9, 2016
Kolarov looks to bend one into the bottom right, but though it’s beaten the wall, it’s never foxing Buffon, and is sailing wide anyway.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 15, 2015
He, however, insisted that the fellow was only "foxing," and so the matter ended.
From A Modern Buccaneer by Rolf Boldrewood
