panther
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Hedda paces around the villa, sketched with modernist spareness by scenic designer Mark Wendland, like a panther in a gold-plated cage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
The bathrooms are decorated with faux marble, and the image of a black panther with a yellow eye fixed on customers as they freshen up.
From Barron's ● Dec. 22, 2025
But beneath Sophie’s polished facade lurks a yearning for danger symbolized by the panther tattoo on her thigh.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Paul says he and a friend were travelling by train near Glenfinnan when they spotted what he describes as a melanistic leopard, also known as a black panther.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2024
Arliss was screaming his head off, and here came the big dog with his wet fur rising along the ridge of his backbone, baying me like I was a panther.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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Suraci and colleagues instead focused on the Olympic Peninsula, where mountain lions -- variously known as cougars, pumas or panthers -- have long been established.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
As for the red wolf, Mr. Moore writes that, in the 1930s in northeast Louisiana, a remnant tract of old-growth forest teemed with prowling panthers and massive alligators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Mountain lions, also called pumas, cougars, catamounts or panthers, can be found throughout North America, but now are mostly in 15 western states, according to the Mountain Lion Foundation.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026
They’ve been told to buddy up when taking trips to the latrines because of “alligators and Florida panthers and venomous snakes and different types of creatures.”
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2025
The panthers ran in circles, changing color, and ten million animals, running before the fire, vanished off toward a distant steaming river..
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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