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litter

[lit-er] / ˈlɪt ər /




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On the second evening, the winners were dressed as characters from “Desperate Living,” complete with four men in leather attire carrying their friend, who was dressed like a queen on a litter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

For example, before vaccines kick in, sharing a litter box with another house cat risks transferring parasites.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Numerous prototype limbs litter the surfaces in Kimathi's lab.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

The Durham City Riverscape Community formed just before the coronavirus pandemic to carry out monthly litter picks along the River Wear.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

The propagandists litter MacArthur’s forces with flyers that say, in part, “You are doomed.”

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

It is the only other highly ranked "monotocous" species, meaning it typically produces a single offspring per pregnancy rather than litters.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 22, 2026

They sleep together, clean each other and, despite being from different litters, generally behave like siblings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025

He was best known for his love of the husky dogs used to pull sledges around the island, and he raised two litters of dogs.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025

Mother Laila has had three previous litters with breeding partner Yarko as part of the sanctuary's breeding programme.

From BBC ● May 29, 2025

Poppy had several litters for my mother’s business, but the puppies and the other breeding dogs live with Mummy’s partner at a farm outside Burlington.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart

Rom-coms and dance movies are often littered with convoluted circumstances, but “Shake Your Booty!” sabotages the heartfelt story it wants to tell about finding new love and learning to let go.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Social media platforms are littered with cheering sections gleefully anticipating mass unemployment in creative industries.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

At the scene of the second strike, an AFP correspondent saw the ruins of a devastated villa, with large decorative columns laying on their side next to stairs littered with rubble.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

The area is littered with massive piles of shells called middens, left by indigenous groups who ate the river’s wild oysters for more than a thousand years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

She saw the old stump littered with her herbs and potions.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

There are large fragments of salt-eaten machinery littering the shore, relics of the island’s martial heyday.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

In the 2023-24 season, widespread fan action including littering pitches with tennis balls and chocolate coins resulted in the scrapping of an investment deal, despite the proposal winning majority support of clubs.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

The latter which was backed up by AI pictures posted to his account with drones and planes and military gear littering the rooftop.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

After sunrise, villagers in Qusra, near the city of Nablus, walked through the scorched remains of the Al-Rahma mosque, broken tiles littering the ground, videos showed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

Hephaestus was always tossing broken parts out of his godly workshop and littering the earth with scrap metal, but what were the chances some of it would hit Ogygia?

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan




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