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But it re-entered the spotlight last year, with celebrities and fashionistas wearing both vintage and so-called faux fur.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

With its short fur and broad, flattened tail, Megacauda sungei would have looked somewhat like a modern otter, beaver, or platypus.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Keepers at Sydney's Taronga Zoo trained two sea lions and two fur seals to listen to sounds and press a paddle when they heard a tone.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Fourteen-year-old Genevieve learns she can change her clothes to pass as a much more glamorous 17-year-old, while 11-year-old Fenella prefers covering herself in gray fur so she resembles a cat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The gestures can be with the muzzle, ears, paws, tail, shoulders, fur, or the whole body.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Shopkeepers at the boutique frantically hid their furs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Staff started out by wearing bear masks and animal furs, then crawling into the enclosure to spoon-feed the cubs formula.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

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

Another interpretation is that Native American tribes would set beaver traps before the swamps froze, ensuring a supply of warm winter furs.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2024

When he takes his furs to town, he will not need to trade for much store sugar.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Known as the Blue Bear Beast Bloodlust Incarnate, the ferocious, turquoise-colored furred monster has claws and bites.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

The others had eggs but no fish, a fish carcass furred white with bacteria or nothing at all.

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2022

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

A mother’s body remembers her babies—the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

I was astounded by what I saw as I removed the drywall that was screwed to the wood furring strips that were nailed to the four-inch solid concrete block that made the chimney.

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