rat
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Khan also said there had been rats at the venue for a long time and that cleaners were told to check daily for rat droppings.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Aiming to escape the rat race and find opportunities for work in a bleak job market, the founders use artificial intelligence to code, communicate with customers and promote their products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
"Our younger generation... they're always in this little rat race, keeping up with social media," the 61-year-old said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
The researchers also currently obtain the EVs from primary rat astrocytes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
And he must be scared to make any noise, because now Erik’s on the lookout for a rat.
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
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Videos of rats scuttling through corridors in other lycées soon hit social media, providing striking symbols of the discontent.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Gym rats can check their body composition of fat and muscle, people with heart issues can get their heartbeat captured, and mole owners can get their moles mapped to 0.1 mm.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
Warming oceans, habitat destruction, predation by rats and dogs, competition with commercial fisheries and accidental capture in fishing nets are also threatening many populations.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Plague is often linked to rats, packed medieval cities, and the devastating epidemics that tore through Europe during and after the Middle Ages.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
The creaking wooden sailing ships were crawling with rats.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
No one would get ratted out on social media as “problematic.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
“She ratted me out! Yes, I have the teapot, which I realize is quite the memento,” says Krasinski, writing while in production on an upcoming project.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2025
Finally, Perry himself turns on his schoolteacher girlfriend, Ginny Aimes, on a dime when the gun is brought to light, assuming she is the person who ratted him out.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
Bulger, who ran the largely Irish mob in Boston in the 1970s and ’80s, served as an FBI informant who ratted on his gang’s main rival, according to the bureau.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
She never ratted me out to my parents, but obviously she’d remembered the trick.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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And who wouldn’t have to modify their behavior if they thought Rover was ratting them out to his pals down at Paws & Claws?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
Stroup has said that ratting out Peter Bourne was the “stupidest decision” he ever made.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2025
"But he could be ratting out Eastman and Powell, for example, in order to make a deal."
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2023
This particular Planned Parenthood is where high school girls in my town would go if they needed birth control and didn’t want any busybodies ratting them out if they were spotted at the local clinic.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023
Dad’s going to drag me to school, and my name will be mud for ratting them out.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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