weasel

“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

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

Lacking Spotify, they decided to pass the time by undertaking “an enumeration and actual count” of road-killed animals—a battered weasel here, a flattened garter snake there.

From Slate ● May 25, 2024

Because she thought I was trying to weasel in with James?

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

In the Gaza Strip, left devastated by war, the daily battles are now with rats, urban weasels and other pests spreading diseases.

From BBC ● May 2, 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

A relation of the bears, otters and weasels, you are the nearest thing to a bear now left in England, and your skin is so thick that it makes no difference who bites you.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

As a man who only weaseled his way into the president’s good graces by betraying the trust of his previous employer, Raymond Tusk, a dissatisfied Seth seems potentially dangerous.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2016

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

Fang weaseled his way to the front, dragging me with him.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

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

If they know your name, they can find ways of weaseling into your life.

From Slate ● Jan. 18, 2017

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

From Winning a Cause World War Stories by Inez Bigwood