fox
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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
Rob Pownall spends most of his time running his advocacy organisation Protect the Wild, which advocates for British wildlife, but in recent weeks he ran for the Makerfield seat dressed as a fox.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
“I think even as a child I was trying to integrate those two ideas of a dancing fox and a real human being quietly dying. How does that make sense?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
All better: Basil, the fox who sneaked on a ship to New York.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
Normally, a fox cannot outrun a raging river.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Scientists examined the remains of two canids, a group that includes wolves, dogs, foxes, and related animals.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
Looking out their back windows, they can see foxes, deer and possums in neighboring woodlands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Already though, there’s been positive signs for the island foxes and the western snowy plover, a threatened shorebird that has a year-round population on Santa Rosa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
As well as snails and foxes, the trust is particularly keen for people to log sightings of rabbits, slow worms, fungi and butterfly varieties such as the Marbled White.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
Skunks abound, and foxes and coyotes and wolves and weasels—all predators.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
But the algorithms that underpin smart systems can be foxed by mundane events.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2020
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
That sure foxed the defenders but Lingard seems taken by surprise, too, and he miscontrols it!
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2015
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
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
Kane, just inside the Scotland box, brings it down, and flicks it inside, foxing Robertson.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 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
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
