badger
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"By combining non-invasive genetic monitoring with sett surveys, camera traps and movement data, we can estimate local badger numbers, check the proportion of the population reached and identify significant gaps," he added.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Tejon means “badger” in Spanish, and all it took was some Spaniard on an 1806 expedition happening upon a dead badger there for the name to stick.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
"He deserves better than being replaced by a badger," he said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026
Captured on a quiet road in St Leonards-on-Sea, England by British photographer Ian Wood, the badger appears to glance up at a graffiti version of itself designed by the mysterious artist.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2025
Anyway, the badger seemed unfazed by the revelation.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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I took a mat next to the American black bears and American badgers, only slightly jealous that the mats next to the large-scale walrus diorama were taken.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The lakes region Mr. Hoffman describes as “magnetic and mercurial” is home to bears, wolves, badgers, otters and a surprising variety of other creatures, yet their ways of life are being threatened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Possibilities, subject to a public consultation, include badgers and otters as well as frogs, hedgehogs, barn owls and newts.
From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026
The proposed openings in the wall, about the size of a piece of paper, would provide passage for animals like bobcats, badgers and even female mountain lions and their young.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026
Some of ’em fought like badgers to get up soon’s they was flipped, some of ’em jus’ layed there waiting to see what was gonna happen.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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In another encounter, he says, a woman appeared to have been "badgered into it".
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
Because that’s what gets done to the biggest guys—they are badgered, bullied, and banged around, with the hope the referees ignore a lot of the contact, because the big guy just is too big.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Later headlines would say that Solanas believed Warhol “controlled her life” and that he had “legal claim” over her self-published writing, which she frequently badgered him to read.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026
For months, Meta’s algorithm badgered me to buy a little piece of plastic mounted on a magnet.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
Then I half coaxed, half badgered him out of his bed and into the shower.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
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Costco raised its fees in 2024 — the first such increase in seven years — after months of badgering from Wall Street.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 2026
After successfully badgering his dad to take him to a local club to play on full-size tables at the age of eight, the young Hunter made the leap from table top snooker with aplomb.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026
And then there are the bit players they run into throughout who, in Mr. Panahi’s acidic vision of a desperate society, tend to end interactions by badgering for a tip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
“The jury sees this, and it ends up risking looking like you’re just badgering this woman,” Haberman said.
From Salon ● May 10, 2024
After repeated badgering by Farmer, Lilly was finally selling it to PIH in Peru for $21 a vial.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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