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More and more young people talk about feeling burnt out, question the point of staying in the rat race and, in some cases, feel bruised by their parents' tough love.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

In California, the cats’ population faces several threats — including human encroachment, loss of habitat and prey due to wildfires, rat poison, disease and vehicle collisions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

Modern dating can feel like a rat race, where meetups are faster, cheaper and more abundant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Guillermo Deferrari, of Ushuaia's scientific research center, downplayed the landfill theory, explaining that the colilargo is herbivore and lives off seeds and fruit found in forested ecosystems, not in dumps, where the common rat feeds.

From Barron's ● May 12, 2026

“Well,” he said, “you can’t be a man without being a rat first.”

From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli

There are flies, rats and, if the wind shifts every so slightly, a waft of thick, nauseating air from the warehouse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

They’re lab rats, in a sense: What if all a young person knew was what he or she learned via Instagram?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

For many people, plague brings to mind rats, crowded medieval towns, and the devastating epidemics that spread across Europe during and after the Middle Ages.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026

It is yet to be fixed - and her neighbours are going through similar ordeals with rats.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

There just might be some of Cluny’s rats lying in ambush for any creature that ventured into the shadowy fringes of Mossflower.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

No one has ratted out Gale and me.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

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

"But he could be ratting out Eastman and Powell, for example, in order to make a deal."

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2023

He prided himself on not ratting out his Watergate co-conspirators and argued that if everyone had just shut up about it Nixon would not have been deposed.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2021

With the Cambridge Analytica scandal still ratting along, Facebook revealed that a separate problem had exposed almost 50 million accounts to being hijacked.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2018

She always feared that one day she’d get in trouble for ratting out Mr. Pepperhorn, and now it was actually happening.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega