squirrel
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The National Trust of Jersey said the island was an "important refuge" for the red squirrel, where they were "fairly widespread, external".
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Paskett, though, thinks there could be an effective additional way to control grey squirrel numbers within the next five years.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
The squirrel monkey, which relies strongly on vision, has a brain dominated by the neocortex.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Finally, one of the crew members caught the squirrel under a towel and carried him off the field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Earlier, even though there were no other people in the area, he’d heard the magpies cawing, and a squirrel had complained when Jonathan tossed a rock.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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Jersey is home to a thriving red squirrel population, thanks to the complete absence of grey squirrels, which carry a virus deadly to their red cousins.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
What is the family labrador-slash-wide receiver doing this December besides barking out the window at squirrels?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Groups trying to protect red squirrels are being invited to bid for funding from a £250,000 pot.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
All are adorned with jewels and tails made of real horse hair, many of which have been eaten by squirrels or other critters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Fitzgerald, a boy younger but much bigger than me, was once challenged to run into The Woods and he got attacked by mad squirrels.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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The funds we squirreled away back then help buffer us from inflation in retirement now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"I haven't been on wages for the past two weeks. I'm now dipping into savings, money that I've squirreled away for retirement, with no insight into exactly when this will be over."
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025
It was from frankly upsetting circumstances, so I’ve squirreled it away in some high-yield savings accounts and continued to live comfortably off my regular income.
From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2024
Almost all artifacts of film history are squirreled away in studios’ vaults, where they’ve been subject to the vicissitudes of corporate accounting and the ebb and flow of mergers and acquisitions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
Details such as food, drink, a change of clothing, a place to sleep, and needing more than the seventeen dollars squirreled away in the zipper pouch of his book bag.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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"He's tucked away in the roof which is exactly the reason really. Mary wasn't meant to have the body so obviously squirrelled him away up in the attic."
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2024
During the late 2000s, when Pliny the Younger became the most sought-after ale in North America, Brouwer’s had kegs of the triple IPA squirrelled away.
From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2024
Given the lax-to-nonexistent policing in Ottawa, it’s impossible to know what else could be squirrelled away in the convoy’s warren of vehicles, tents, and bases.
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2022
Before they left, they squirrelled away tens of billions of dollars in government funds in a network of private bank accounts around the world.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019
For the City’s most ambitious financiers, this was tantalising: there was all this money squirrelled away, doing nothing much, and it was exactly what they needed in their quest to start selling bonds again.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2018
But, mindful of fluctuating costs, they have also been taking steps to reduce their fuel consumption, while "squirreling away that extra little bit of cash".
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
You have to choose — there’s no squirreling out of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
Mary Anna Ball, 25, a ballerina and research analyst in West Virginia, usually starts squirreling away Christmas gifts in July but this year wants to give gifts that will help her family experience the world.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
In his early working years, he was a lifeguard and installed sprinkler systems, squirreling away his earnings with the goal of starting a private investment firm.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2021
On the back of an envelope left beside the museum phone, she has sketched an enormous tree, laden with flowers, the branches squirreling over the flap.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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He still rereads his manuscripts from the beginning each day—an increasing burden, as each book goes on—stripping away what’s superfluous and squirrelling new ideas into the gaps.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2019
In early 2016 some analysts fretted that consumers were squirrelling away the money they were saving on cheap petrol, and so denying the economy a needed fillip.
From Economist ● Dec. 14, 2017
There’s no heavy murk or gothic doom, just that gorgeous, squirrelling synth that’s sad and sweet, vulnerable and lost.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2015
Frances Smith said: "We have support from people on all sides – it's not just bookshops, it's also other independent retailers who are struggling, while these multinational companies are squirrelling away money."
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2013
Unbeknown to them, Farepak, the savings club they were squirrelling their cash into, was in serious trouble.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2012
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