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

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

“Frightful, that old weasel knows. It is Halloween. Let’s have a Halloween party.”

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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

Their female generals lead troops of between 6 and 40 of these little berserker weasels into battle with a plan of attack coordinated beside grizzly mongoose war veterans.

From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2024

Now, Fielding was standing up on a chair, touching the back of one of the stuffed weasels.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

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

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

It’s tech bros, like the ones weaseling into Hollywood, who give their every innovation a sterile sheen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025

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