weasel
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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
“But when universities do the same thing by trying to weasel out of their contracts, it’s equally corrosive.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
Rather than make direct claims about cures, supplement promoters resort to vague boasts about their products using what the Canadian researchers identify as weasel words that can foster the impression of efficacy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 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
“Harold, what’s the matter with that weasel? It’s running all over this rock.”
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
His screen persona has often been the sleaziest of weasels, the connoisseur’s moral degenerate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
The species, which is related to weasels, were once common but declined during the 18th and 19th centuries because of hunting and the loss of woodland.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 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
“If you had some weasels, for instance. Weasels are deadly to basilisks.”
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
The virus has weaseled its way into our gyms and our fields.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2020
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
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 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
Which retired executive is weaseling out of his tax liabilities?
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2018
It is an act of self-denial and lawyerly weaseling that infuriates his Democratic opposition but gives the newspapermen looking down from the gallery nothing incendiary to write.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2012
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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