lioness
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Mr. Schaller spent three years studying lions in Africa, once crawling through thorny thickets to count cubs a lioness had hidden there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
In Farsi, this term honors women who are strong, who stand up for their rights and who are trailblazers—courageous, brave and resilient, much like a lioness.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2024
A lioness rescued from war-torn Ukraine has taken her first steps outside at a sanctuary in Kent.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2024
Tea, 52, is a Massachusetts-to-San Francisco-to-Los Angeles transplant — and the literary lioness who created, among many other cultural lightning rods, the notorious Drag Queen Story Hour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2023
Behind him were a woman with the head and tail of a lioness, and a Pharaoh in a cobra headpiece.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
He learned that after a kill, lionesses gorge yet seldom bring food to their young.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
But Taka’s father, a king who prioritizes royal lineage, isn’t pleased, referring to Mufasa as the “stray” and forcing him to be raised by the lionesses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2024
Two lionesses had gone hunting, leaving the pride's five cubs hidden overnight in dense bushes, in Kenya's Maasai Mara Mara.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2024
They are the sentinels of a populations health, specifically the number of animals in a group, and more importantly the ratio of lionesses to lions.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 21, 2023
No ordinary clasp would suffice for such a weight, so the greatcloak was held in place by a matched pair of miniature lionesses crouching on his shoulders, as if poised to spring.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
