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In April, while Prigozhin stayed at the hotel in Bangui, Wagner fighters in Russian helicopters conducted aerial surveillance of wildcat gold-mining operations near the South Sudan border.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

The Eagles were able to come up with a new game plan, using freshman quarterback Hendrix Coleman along with several running backs and receiver Andrew Cordero in a wildcat formation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Some in the broader settler movement draw a distinction between Hilltop Youth who volunteer as farm hands on agricultural outposts and those living in so-called wildcat camps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Chief Bepdjo is also dealing with divisions among his own people, some of whom -- including his predecessor -- support wildcat mining.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

I search her face but can’t see any of Safaa’s wildcat stare.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

As human beings began to organize themselves into sedentary, agrarian societies, they formed mutualistic relationships with the wildcats that prevented vermin from decimating their grain stores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Several estates have been actively helping: providing release sites, monitoring the wildcats, recording sightings.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Matson's work in conservation sees cells from 200 endangered species, ranging from African elephants to Scotland's wildcats, being frozen in liquid nitrogen at –196°C to create a cryogenic "time capsule".

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Employees routinely took newborn kangaroos, wildcats and goats home overnight to provide round-the-clock feeding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

Clad in armor, he leaned casually on an impressive sword, while behind him foxes, wildcats and vermin fled in terror.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Benedum discovered the famous De Mares Pool in Colombia on which International Petroleum fattened and wildcatted in Rumania's Ploesti field at Queen Marie's personal invitation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Besides practicing law, he wildcatted for oil with moderate success.

From Time Magazine Archive

With dollars accumulated from purchase and sale of oil leases during boom years around 1906, he "wildcatted."

From Time Magazine Archive

On the other is Marvin Davis, 59, son of a New York dress manufacturer who wildcatted an oil fortune in the Rocky Mountains.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile, he struck oil, wildcatted himself into more millions than he could count.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most of the publicly available geothermal data was collected when oil-and-gas companies were wildcatting across the West between 1960 and 1980.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

“Development is like oil wildcatting or farming,” he once told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2023

Go far enough back in baseball’s history – into the game’s actual disreputable, exploitive, wildcatting past, not the shelf-stable official one – and the same story repeats itself one generation after another.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2017

It’s fun to think of it as of a panoramic velvet painting: The Western landscape of Bonanza and Giant and wildcatting George H.W.

From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2012

We didn't know it was wildcatting until after he had tried to repair it.

From Stand by for Mars! by Louis Glanzman