weasel
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"He's a weasel of a man because every time he's confronted, he becomes sick or says one of his family members has died," says Marns, who now lives in Dubai.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
“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
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
He was impervious to the fascination of the mustelidae, and hoped someday to kill a weasel, if not a stoat.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
"I've seen stoats, I've seen weasels, I've even seen pine martens," said Kate Wollen, from Forestry England.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
His screen persona has often been the sleaziest of weasels, the connoisseur’s moral degenerate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 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
Cordelia is a weasel, but since she’s in a weasel costume with a weasel head, it’s impossible to tell her apart from all the other weasels.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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
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
Jennifer had weaseled the trip to Sutton’s out of her mother as a treat for me since that awful thing had happened to me at the Bakers'.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
In fact, Wright didn’t explain things so much as conduct a master class in weaseling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
This weaseling is probably the same reason that the court teed up Section 2’s constitutionality in an obscure order issued late on a Friday afternoon in August last year.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 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
Which retired executive is weaseling out of his tax liabilities?
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2018
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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