jackal
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I suppose she is referring to an alley cat or perhaps a jackal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
England's back row of Ben Earl, Tom Curry and Ben Curry posed a significant jackal threat, spreading across the width of the pitch, meaning one was always on hand to disrupt the breakdown.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025
Though the creature is sometimes referred to as the Falklands fox, the warrah did not physically resemble a fox or wolf, but rather a coyote or jackal.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2024
Despite the Ivy League imprimatur, the cartoonist was still happy when people called him “the retching jackal guy,” a reference to his Mad illustration showing that animal mid-vomit.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2023
Even if he had known, he would not have wanted very much to meet a jackal.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
As North Korea’s hagiographers rewrote history, they held American missionaries responsible for the country’s misfortunes, while state-sponsored novels, plays and museums depicted them as jackals who subjected Koreans to vile human experiments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
A 19th-Century Anglo-Indian journal derided the voices of boys playing women as "discordant", comparing them unfavourably to "howling jackals".
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
The animals, also known as the plains wolf and listed as vulnerable, are smaller than the stronger Himalayan wolf and can be mistaken for other species such as jackals.
From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025
Though they are genetically closer to jackals, they convergently evolved to resemble gray wolves.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2025
One thing was clear: It wouldn’t stay on that rock long if the jackals and vultures discovered it.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
