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

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

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

It’s not the only comedy with pithy, repeatable dialogue that weaseled its way into our vernacular so completely that we started to forget about the source.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2018

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

"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

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

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

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