squirrel
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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
"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
"Nowadays you are more likely to see a red squirrel than you are a grey squirrel."
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Many conservation groups believe England's red squirrel population is close to extinction and the data captured by the cameras during the two year project will detect threats from invading greys early.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
A squirrel raiding our bird feeder natters at me in irritation before it hops away to try its luck at the bird feeder two houses over.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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Several squirrels have frequented the ballpark during Tigers games over the years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 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
On top of that, squirrels and mice have damaged the insulation.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026
Someday Ray will find a tree full of squirrels, and Axel will see the eagles fly.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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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
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
That’s because federal insurance programs will protect all the money typical Californians have squirreled away in a bank or credit union.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
Jessie always had money squirreled away in her lock box.
From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies
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"I just feel like right now, we need that money squirrelled away in a safe spot," he said.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2025
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
Was he surprised by the quality of the shots people had squirrelled away?
From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2019
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
“I just worry about the undisclosed kind of squirreling money away,” Rossman said.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023
River, 69, spends $100 on a box of 20 Alaska wild salmon fillets, squirreling them away in the freezer and rationing them out for “luxurious” dinners for her and her roommate Paul Allen, 70.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
She'd seen both her mother and father do it so many times during her childhood, squirreling away money from their business to avoid the prying eyes—and pockets—of the bankers of the Marvellian Mint.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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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
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
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