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"We don't have robots that are nearly as good at understanding the physical world as a rat," says Yann LeCun, one of the leading figures in the world of artificial intelligence.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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

The long-tailed rat known as Oligoryzomys longicaudatus carries the Andes strain in Patagonia.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

“The way to a man is through a rat, huh?”

From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli

“Cool Machine” is a modern masterpiece and an ode to New York, no matter that rats skitter and cockroaches scamper underfoot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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

A 1979 report from the World Health Organisation found that chlordecone was "carcinogenic in mice and rats" and it was reasonable to regard it as a "carcinogenic risk to humans".

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

This little creature is much cuter than the rats that plague the Ranch’s compost piles.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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

"Bobb ratted out Corcoran," wrote national security attorney Bradley Moss.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2022

“Tell me how I ratted, came home to a big bag,” he shrieks.

From New York Times ● May 20, 2020

They kept saying that my friends—Henry and Charles—had ratted on me.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

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

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