beaver
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"One beaver wetland won't solve all of our drought problems," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Eleanor Nash, community ranger at Forestry England, said beaver kits were nursed for about two to three months.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 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
It resembled the beaver lodge, but it was larger, a great dome of wood and mud and leaves.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
She said she saw more than two dozen dead animals, including raccoons and beavers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
"It's been really interesting to see how the general public have taken to beavers and getting people thinking about seeing them back in our countryside."
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Flooding two years ago during Hurricane Helene swept beavers inland from the Ogeechee River.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
By the time the beavers were trapped and their dams dismantled, a few dozen acres of trees were dead and too dangerous to remove.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
He didn’t notice the beavers diving back into the pond.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
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
He is a most industrious small chopper, and the other day gnawed down, or as the children call it, "beavered" down, a misshapen tulip tree, which was about fifty feet high.
From Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt
I didn’t set out to leverage AI, beavering away in the background while I sleep, to set my priorities every morning, and even help me regulate my physical and mental health.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
A detective, in the form of a Firmin scholar, is beavering around.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2023
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
Hundreds of construction workers are beavering away on expanding the site.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2021
Thank'ee, Hurry; thank'ee, with all my heart—but I do a little beavering for myself as occasions offer.
From The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
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