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beaver

[bee-ver] / ˈbi vər /


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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

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

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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