wildcat
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Nineteenth-century wildcat notes circulated in an era when collateral requirements, where they existed at all, were routinely evaded and unenforceable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
This is pushing wildcat miners into relatively untouched areas like Bau.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
To better understand how evolution shaped these sounds, the researchers compared domestic cat meows with those of five wild cat species: African wildcat, European wildcat, jungle cat, cheetah, and cougar.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 11, 2026
USC will resolve any red-zone scoring deficiencies by installing freshman Trent Mosley at wildcat quarterback.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025
I can hear the buzz of insects, the calling of a wildcat or wolf, and sometimes the voice of a person, a man or a woman calling out a name or yelling at their children.
From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani
Employees routinely took newborn kangaroos, wildcats and goats home overnight to provide round-the-clock feeding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
The South West Wildcat Project hopes to bring back 50 European wildcats, from 2028, after a study found a colony could "flourish" in the mid-Devon countryside.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2025
She added that it was unlikely there would be a population explosion as wildcats live in low density numbers over wider areas and they would be closely monitored and managed.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2025
"That's reached such a point where pure Scottish wildcats were virtually extinct and there's really been action to bring those animals back. These are one of our mega charismatic animals," she added.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2025
It was uninhabited by humans but teeming with wildlife— iron-beaked gaganas flew overhead, glinting in the sun, and as the boat drew in, a cluster of small wildcats with luminescent fur went sprinting away.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Besides practicing law, he wildcatted for oil with moderate success.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile, he struck oil, wildcatted himself into more millions than he could count.
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
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
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
They cool the reactant fuel to keep it from getting too hot and wildcatting.
From Treachery in Outer Space by Louis Glanzman
