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
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 another from last month, a user asked Claude how to "become become Nine-tailed fox?"
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Other fringe candidates are also making plans to run, including two foxes: a man who dresses as a fox to raise awareness for protecting wildlife, and actor-turned-activist Laurence Fox.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Bracing herself on the guardrail, she knelt beside the fox.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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During breeding season—roughly late April through most of August—they nest in underground burrows on offshore islands where mammalian predators such as mink, rats and foxes can’t get at them or their young.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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
Looking out their back windows, they can see foxes, deer and possums in neighboring woodlands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Another theory, proposed in earlier studies, suggests the parasite may have arrived in red foxes imported for hunting about a century ago.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
But I’ve hosted more than my share of raccoons, foxes, skunks, opossums, and mice.
From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate
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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
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
What we do see is that the pages are extensively foxed, a term that refers to ugly spotting.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2011
Then Lionel Messi won the ball, foxed three opponents and passed.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 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
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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
In the end, it turned out that McAleer had been foxing all along.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 4, 2017
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
Certain students with low grades and less honor would somehow gravitate together and discuss plans for "foxing the profs."
From The Plastic Age by Percy Marks