weasel
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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
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
“Harold, what’s the matter with that weasel? It’s running all over this rock.”
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
His screen persona has often been the sleaziest of weasels, the connoisseur’s moral degenerate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
The species, which is related to weasels, were once common but declined during the 18th and 19th centuries because of hunting and the loss of woodland.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
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
On the hill, the old ruins stood white and silent—no sign of ancient paths, or goddesses, or farting weasels.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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 ● Jul. 5, 2021
The crest-tailed mulgara weaseled its way back into the park before the start of this conservation project.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 18, 2017
"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
“I don’t know how I weaseled my way onto this team,” Romo said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2011
Grandma hugged Zed and then Zed hugged Joey, and bam, faster than one of Joey’s knockouts, Zed had weaseled himself into becoming part of Joey’s family.
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
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
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