fur
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Keeping your fur baby healthy can take a big bite out of your budget.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Macy’s is bringing in higher-end brands and pricier items like real fur and leather to appeal to its growing base of wealthy consumers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Authorities suspect the primates, known for their shaggy red fur, were trafficked into India, sparking a criminal investigation.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
“The Wizard of Oz’s” original Cowardly Lion costume stands alone in the center of a room allowing intimate inspection of its whiskers, ringlets and fur.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
“A fur muff?” she demanded, each word bristling with suspicion.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Shopkeepers at the boutique frantically hid their furs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
The designer's first Autumn-Winter collection, for both men and women, featured black, white and green furs, all restyled, and a minimalist colour palette of mostly black, white and pale blue.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
Beavers in the UK were hunted to extinction in the 16th Century, mainly for their furs.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2025
The needles likely were used to create garments from the animals' furs to keep the early foragers warm in what was a cool climate.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024
So, in his best-built sedan chair and with his strongest servants and warmest furs, the new ruler traveled to the mountain.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
Print off the wildlife checklist before you go and watch for a Pacific jumping mouse and Roosevelt elk, among hundreds of finned, furred and feathered creatures listed.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2021
His new, weird, soft sponginess is unsettling at best, and though his furred friends are a little less off-putting, it’s not by much.
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2021
America’s astounding natural treasures, including the furred and feathered ones, are an irreplaceable part of the national heritage.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 2, 2020
But full lips and furred brows aside, her influence on fashion is debatable.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2018
This land was waterless, furred with the cacti which could store water and with the great-rooted brush which could reach deep into the earth for a little moisture and get along on very little.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
The shocking thing is that the flue gases had escaped from the chimney and could have set the wood framing near the chimney and the wood furring strips on fire.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2021
If flue gases had escaped from the chimney, they could have set the wood framing near the chimney and the wood furring strips on fire.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2021
Made of rare-earth magnets encased in wood, the holder looks almost like a well-sanded and stained furring strip.
From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2019
Bad cholesterol is the villain in heart world - it leads to blood vessels furring up, becoming easy to block which fatally starves the heart or brain of oxygen.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2017
The pine paneling was gone from the walls leaving just the furring strips.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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