badger

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

The badger also ultimately failed to make the shortlist.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

When asked how she would feel if he were replaced by a badger, she said: "Well, lucky badger or lucky grandpapa", adding that a suitable substitute should be a very brave and courageous animal.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

"He deserves better than being replaced by a badger," he said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026

The badger looked around as if she could not possibly believe she was being summoned back, but reluctantly resumed her place in the garden beside Clare.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

“We’ve planted 20,000 trees around the site, we’ve replaced habitats and homes for protected species like bats, newts and badgers and created wildflower meadows specifically for wildlife foraging,” the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

The cameras have captured badgers, foxes and hedgehogs as well as the nesting swifts.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2025

We have to go with Clare to a dark place—a very dark place indeed—a place where few foxes and only a handful of elk and absolutely no badgers have ever gone before.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

He asked blistering public questions of city and state leaders, badgered Washington to investigate the fire, and joined other displaced residents in filing a lawsuit for “inverse condemnation.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 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

He badgered Wisconsin with a barrage of floaters and driving layups.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2025

Donald had provided aid to slaves his whole life, whenever possible and with whatever means at hand, ever since he was a small boy and misdirected some bounty men who badgered him over a runaway.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

She added: "Your constant pestering, badgering and, eventually, attendance at their home address on a dark evening in December was unwarranted."

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025

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

“What is the thing you’ve been begging and badgering me for all these years? Leaving notes around the house to remind me. In my shoes, in the sugar bowl.”

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt