beaver
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Among other things, the beaver and moose are both “facing right with wide eyes and a smile,” it notes in a lawsuit filed this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
In an interview, she noted the beaver and moose in question appear to have coexisted in the convenience-store and gas-station marketplace for at least 35 years, based on trademark records.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Soccer fans visiting a very large gas station for the first time… carry-on BBQ sandwiches & beaver nuggets?
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
Montreal’s mascot was Amik, the industrious Canadian beaver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
He realized that a beaver had persistence, patience and ingenuity.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
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Last year, it was confirmed that SWT was considering a licence to release beavers into the county after they were hunted to extinction about 400 years ago.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
And in its forests and on its grasslands, tule elk and mule deer graze, while bobcats and coyotes hunt for rabbits and mountain beavers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
It will be spent on projects on the River Stour, with Kent the home to England's largest population of wild beavers, and ancient woodland at the Blean, near Canterbury.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
"We saw another video clip and this one was the one of the adult beavers swimming across the little pond here with three kits in tow," Boles said.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Consider what the beavers can build with no tools but their rodent teeth.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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If Musk had quietly beavered away on something that might have helped, that would have been one thing, but that isn’t Musk’s style – he happily admits to his own arrogance.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2018
For two months, they beavered away at the problem.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2014
There were issues of "privacy" and "commercial confidentiality" here apparently, as big hackers beavered away untouched.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2013
"They have beavered away trying this and trying that and the formulations have changed over the last 50 years, but not radically."
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2011
He is a most industrious small chopper, and the other day gnawed down, or as the children call it, "beavered" down, a misshapen tulip tree, which was about fifty feet high.
From Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt
A detective, in the form of a Firmin scholar, is beavering around.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2023
Adam Le Doux, the creator of the game-making software, was working as a programmer at Microsoft while beavering away on creative projects in his spare time.
From The Verge ● Mar. 7, 2022
Republicans are beavering away to create something, but it’s a proposal.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2017
Meanwhile, never one to miss a chance of some free publicity, PRs across the land have been beavering away for weeks on their April fool press releases in the hope of a few column inches.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2017
Thank'ee, Hurry; thank'ee, with all my heart—but I do a little beavering for myself as occasions offer.
From The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
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