weasel
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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
Traditional brushes are made with animal hair from squirrels, goats or sable, a species of weasel.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 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
“Yes, I know,” Hazel muttered to the weasel.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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
The Freys all looked like weasels; Ser Stevron, past sixty with grandchildren of his own, looked like an especially old and tired weasel, yet he was polite enough.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
“Benjamin weaseled his way into driving with this friend,” she said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2020
The virus has weaseled its way into our gyms and our fields.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2020
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
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
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
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