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gopher

[goh-fer] / ˈgoʊ fər /


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This year, while setting up a bubble machine to shower celebrants, Leigh saw a gopher pop its head up.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

His Turner Endangered Species Fund, launched in June 1997, has worked to save gopher tortoises, monarch butterflies and leopard frogs, working mainly with private landowners.

From Barron's May 6, 2026

During the summers, I interned with the animation department as a gopher.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 7, 2025

But because the dusky gopher frog helps control insect populations and prevent pest outbreaks in longleaf pine forest ponds, its extinction would again trigger a number of negative effects that may become unstoppable.

From Science Daily Oct. 25, 2023

A well-grown gopher took up residence in a thicket of mallow weeds in the vacant lot on Cannery Row.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck




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