weasel

The reintroductions represented the first attempt to re-establish a sustainable breeding population of the tree-climbing members of the weasel family in the South West since they were hunted to extinction more than a century ago.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

No being a weasel and giving me three or four.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

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

Rasmussen’s promotion of its vaccine-related balderdash is replete with weasel words, as if the firm is opting for plausible deniability.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

Fortunately, Scragg the weasel was on the alert.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

"I've seen stoats, I've seen weasels, I've even seen pine martens," said Kate Wollen, from Forestry England.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

That means eradicating invasive species such as possums, rats and mustelids—a group that includes weasels, ferrets and stoats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2024

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

After issuing orders to his remaining captains, Cluny, accompanied by a score of assorted rats, weasels, stoats and ferrets, crept off along the course of the ditch.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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 ● Jul. 5, 2021

It weaseled under the doors and through the seams of your shirt.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2019

The crest-tailed mulgara weaseled its way back into the park before the start of this conservation project.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 18, 2017

"It's weaseled its way into my psychology, I'm not gonna lie. It would take a lot right now to talk me into playing a killer."

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2015

Grandma hugged Zed and then Zed hugged Joey, and bam, faster than one of Joey’s knockouts, Zed had weaseled himself into becoming part of Joey’s family.

From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen

“I was having him prep the podcast guests, and then he started weaseling his way onto set every now and then,” Goblikon said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

This weaseling is probably the same reason that the court teed up Section 2’s constitutionality in an obscure order issued late on a Friday afternoon in August last year.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 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

Which retired executive is weaseling out of his tax liabilities?

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2018

Under their cover I stood a fair chance at weaseling off.

From Winning a Cause World War Stories by Inez Bigwood