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
She bore a large scar on her face when she met with AFP at her home in Bethlehem, holding a stuffed fox that had belonged to her son.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
In another from last month, a user asked Claude how to "become become Nine-tailed fox?"
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
After a few minutes of foraging, snapping, and binding, the fox and the badger stood back to survey their work.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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
Leaving a trail of destruction in their wake are introduced pests: fire ants, cane toads, rabbits, foxes, feral cats.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
With fewer coyotes and bobcats present, foxes appeared to benefit.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026
The foxes watched the soldiers run down the hill, sweep their beams of light over the heap in the field, then go back.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
The thorny issue of the pedestrianisation of London's most famous shopping street had foxed mayoral administrations for years.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
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
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
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
To-night it wasn't that feeling that made it difficult for me to go on "foxing."
From The Boys and I by Mrs. Molesworth
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