weasel
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“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
And with quarterback Dylan Raiola out for the second half with an injury, USC was able to limit Johnson just enough to weasel its way back into the game.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2025
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
But it increased by 56 percent in Central California, thanks to these little creatures in the weasel family.
From Salon • Jan. 23, 2024
Had Goldstein settled for these weasel words, she would have undermined her analysis before it began.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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