weasel
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No being a weasel and giving me three or four.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
And with quarterback Dylan Raiola out for the second half with an injury, USC was able to limit Johnson just enough to weasel its way back into the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2025
Although Kennedy repeatedly claimed that he's not anti-vaccine throughout his hearing, his statements about vaccines are loaded with weasel words and caveats that are common deflection strategies from vaccine denialists.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2025
"The field is replete with weasel words and unfortunately one of those is consciousness," says Prof Stevan Harnad of Quebec University.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2024
It was not long before a weasel picked up the scent of the blood and followed it.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Dozens of the mammals, which are related to weasels, have been released into secret locations across Dartmoor and Exmoor since autumn 2024 as part of the Devon Wildlife Trust Two Moors Pine Marten project.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
His screen persona has often been the sleaziest of weasels, the connoisseur’s moral degenerate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Squid-headed figures in lab coats inject fish with pink dye and cradle docile geese in front of giant mushroom-capped trees while solemn weasels look on.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
Animal rehabilitation networks will offer white-tailed deer, shrews, weasels, and squirrels.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 29, 2024
Sela knew exactly how many rats, weasels, stoats and ferrets were able-bodied enough for combat.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
A group of Los Angeles consumers is taking a stand against so-called service fees that have increasingly weaseled their way onto cafe and restaurant bills across the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
The crest-tailed mulgara weaseled its way back into the park before the start of this conservation project.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 18, 2017
Instead, he has weaseled around, and presumably didn't tell his mother not to make her despicable request to you—he surely knew what she was up to and didn't even have the courage to warn you.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2013
“I don’t know how I weaseled my way onto this team,” Romo said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2011
I weaseled my way beside Rose, who had RiRi in her lap.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
In fact, Wright didn’t explain things so much as conduct a master class in weaseling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
By the time it came out in 2017, the AI research emerging from the company’s labs was so promising that Kohs was invited to keep weaseling around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 17, 2026
The writer, Martin Keller, has died by the time Sal encounters the story, and soon she’s weaseling her way into the lives of Keller’s widow and daughter to better understand the role she played.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
The sketchy dude turns out to be a shady fixer trying to save his own life by weaseling his way into unwitting police protection.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2021
Under their cover I stood a fair chance at weaseling off.
From Winning a Cause World War Stories by Inez Bigwood
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