fox
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To investigate how cannabinoids influence fear and anxiety, researchers exposed mice to a threatening smell derived from fox urine.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
The deer also reduce habitat and food sources for native birds and mammals, such as the endemic Catalina Island fox, Barton said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 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
In the afternoon, Duane searched out his friend the arctic fox.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
True, in the nearly two decades that she’s been creating plush figures, she’s produced charmingly minimalistic foxes, cats and buffalo fit for a nursery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
As for the deer carcasses, some of the meat will feed endangered California condors, bald eagles and foxes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Scavenger animals such as possums, red foxes and crows can be exposed to the virus while devouring the carcasses of infected birds.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
To help motivate him through the challenge, one of the videos he received , externalwas of his dog Barney frantically barking at foxes in their garden.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
We told them what we’d told the foxes.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
But the algorithms that underpin smart systems can be foxed by mundane events.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2020
Given it’s your third language, your English will be excellent, but you will still be foxed by terms such as “on the brink” and “mind games”.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 13, 2018
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
What we do see is that the pages are extensively foxed, a term that refers to ugly spotting.
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
Not content with making your feet happy, the new design comes with a fully embroidered All Star patch, on-trend high foxing, and monochrome matte eyelets.
From Forbes ● Jul. 23, 2015
His putting Hops into the Underback, is an excellent Contrivance to prevent foxing, as I have already hinted.
From The London and Country Brewer by Anonymous
