mate

"I can't believe our little mate has gone and it's very real and very raw," he added.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Jackie and longtime mate Shadow rose to celeb status through a livestream of their nest that draws thousands of viewers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

"If there's a lot of light pollution around, the males can't see the females and come in and mate with them," Wadsworth says.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Mark Moran, a former investment banker, said he got the early inside track on who Trump would choose as his running mate over dinner at L’Annexe, a swanky Georgetown cocktail bar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

Brightbill circled around one last time, and he said to his mate, “Let’s go home.”

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

Behind the crosshatched front grille lives a well-tempered, turbocharged 3.5-liter V6, mated to an eight-speed automatic transmission and permanent all-wheel drive, including a digitally controlled limited-slip differential.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

However, “beyond that there are vague fears that the AI providers would either be directly competitive or be mated with other solutions to imitate Palantir.”

From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026

Jackie and Shadow aren’t just a mated pair, they share a “beautiful love story.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026

For most species once they've mated and their fledglings have left they sing less and focus on surviving the cold months.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025

“Gurrrrr grrrr,” it goes, with a description just next to it: Contentment; if a kitten and an apple pie mated, this is what it would sound and smell like.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

They don't bite humans, and the bacteria they carry prevents any eggs produced after mating from hatching.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

For four-day periods every year from March to August, legions of small, silver fish called grunion ride the waves ashore for mating rituals, beginning on the nights of the full and new moons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

July happens to overlap with the animal's mating season - the "peak breeding" period where testosterone levels among bulls are heightened, Jennifer Barfield, the scientific lead at Colorado's Laramie Foothills Bison Conservation Herd, said.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

"To me, the differences in sexual dimorphism among populations of beluga whales could indicate that mating systems also vary, and this is something we are currently working on," said O'Corry-Crowe.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026

Less benevolently, he might monopolise particularly coveted foods and prevent lower-ranking males from mating with the females.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari