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badger

[baj-er] / ˈbædʒ ər /


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"You can definitely see badger activity and we know that they are carriers, badger numbers should be monitored and see how that the effects of that in the spread."

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

Tejon means “badger” in Spanish, and all it took was some Spaniard on an 1806 expedition happening upon a dead badger there for the name to stick.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

Asked whether Wales could see badger culling in future in response to bovine TB he said he agreed with Wales' TB Programme Board that the disease should be addressed "in wildlife" as well as livestock.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

"He deserves better than being replaced by a badger," he said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026

“Okay. But if I were really a ghost, couldn’t I just”—the badger waggled her claws—“float over the pond?”

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

I took a mat next to the American black bears and American badgers, only slightly jealous that the mats next to the large-scale walrus diorama were taken.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

A previous order by former minister Edwin Poots for a cull of badgers was quashed by the High Court.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

The land abutting the Pinto Mountains Wilderness is also home to badgers, bighorn sheep and Mojave fringe-toed lizards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

Possibilities, subject to a public consultation, include badgers and otters as well as frogs, hedgehogs, barn owls and newts.

From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026

He wanted the best for all souls—even irritating badgers trying to steal his calling.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

In another encounter, he says, a woman appeared to have been "badgered into it".

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

He asked blistering public questions of city and state leaders, badgered Washington to investigate the fire, and joined other displaced residents in filing a lawsuit for “inverse condemnation.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Later headlines would say that Solanas believed Warhol “controlled her life” and that he had “legal claim” over her self-published writing, which she frequently badgered him to read.

From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026

For months, Meta’s algorithm badgered me to buy a little piece of plastic mounted on a magnet.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025

At the end of the week, Leafie badgered me into going into Wolf Point for the Armistice Day pageant.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Costco raised its fees in 2024 — the first such increase in seven years — after months of badgering from Wall Street.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 2026

Those of ancient lineage may be thinking of the infamous LBJ phone call badgering the head of ABC to get college-football broadcasts for Lady Bird’s TV station.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

During the trial, throughout which Heard was subject to badgering online, Heard expressed her desire to forgo the “torture” of the ongoing litigation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024

“The jury sees this, and it ends up risking looking like you’re just badgering this woman,” Haberman said.

From Salon ● May 10, 2024

It was his strange badgering for some kind of juicy memory that finally produced my first actual result.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken


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