beaver
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The biodiversity of the beaver population will be strengthened with more animals being released, while the trust works with landowners to restore the creatures' habitat.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Soccer fans visiting a very large gas station for the first time… carry-on BBQ sandwiches & beaver nuggets?
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
In October 2007, while scouring Google Earth, he discovered the largest beaver dam on the planet—a 2,700-foot-long structure in northern Alberta with a 17-acre lake backed up behind it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Giant beaver dams in Alberta have so effectively transformed some stretches of forests into wetlands that they’ve helped stop raging wildfires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
The beaver chewed and gnawed and carved up that piece of wood, turning it over and over in his paws.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
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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
"You get beavers who have got older adults in the group as well and they all stay as a family unit."
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
The beavers are said to be thriving and have since added to their brood, with three more kits being born there within the last month.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
He would touch two beavers among all the beavers, two leopards among all the leopards, one stag and one deer among all the deer, and leave the rest.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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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
"I cut forty-nine, and the boss," he added dryly, not realizing that Roosevelt was within hearing—"the boss he beavered down seventeen."
From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn
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
“What I remember is this rivetingly beautiful dark-haired creature beavering away in her cubbyhole,” said Barbara Jakobson, a longtime Museum of Modern Art trustee.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2019
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
"Tain t as bad as beavering," answered Sam.
From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Ernest Thompson Seton
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