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squirrel

[skwur-uhl, skwuhr-, skwir-uhl] / ˈskwɜr əl, ˈskwʌr-, ˈskwɪr əl /


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The squirrel escaped by climbing higher, leaving the leopard clinging on before it eventually made an awkward retreat.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

During the top of the seventh inning, the squirrel found his way between the mound and home plate.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

She might even serve Dinty Moore canned beef stew, something an uber-fan like Rachel knows the production team of the original series used instead of traditional frontier meals like squirrel stew.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

"Jian and the other microraptors probably weren't capable of true, powered flight, but they could probably glide like a flying squirrel," says O'Connor.

From Science Daily Jun. 23, 2026

A squirrel farther down noticed her and froze in his tracks.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

She said the noise and damage caused by the heavy vehicles are particularly concerning for a colony of red squirrels, at a time when they are gathering and storing food ahead of winter.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

His haul ended up including two taxidermy squirrels as well — one dressed as a sheriff and the other posed to look like it is drinking out of a Budweiser can.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

"Squirrelpox is carried by the invasive grey squirrels that were brought into this country at the end of the 1800s," he said.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

Observe: There are no plants building cathedrals, squirrels gazing at the stars or two AI models on a date night looking into each other’s eyes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

All I saw in that park were some squirrels, and I wouldn’t exactly call them “wildlife.”

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

Andrzejewski’s company now has 30 boxes of pennies squirreled away.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 5, 2025

"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

“I have stuff squirreled away for all kinds of stuff,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 12, 2024

In fact, I still have a box or two of these cereals squirreled away at my house, even though I'm well into adulthood, working as an assistant professor of nutrition and dietetics.

From Salon Jul. 23, 2024

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

"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

They wanted to show Greenberg and Margit Erb, the director of the Saul Leiter Foundation, what Ennis had squirrelled away in a drawer.

From The New Yorker Mar. 27, 2017

He has squirrelled some rich material from unpublished correspondence and forgotten cassette tapes.

From The Guardian Mar. 22, 2013

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

That included squirreling away doughnuts for his hardworking drivers if somebody brought the pastries to work while others were out on the road, Ashcraft said.

From Seattle Times Apr. 17, 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

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

Unbeknown to them, Farepak, the savings club they were squirrelling their cash into, was in serious trouble.

From The Guardian Jun. 21, 2012

And Switzerland's banking privacy is under threat from a long-running dispute with the US, which takes a dim view of its wealthier citizens squirrelling away funds in Swiss banks to avoid tax.

From The Guardian Apr. 9, 2011




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