wildcat
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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
This is pushing wildcat miners into relatively untouched areas like Bau.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
He added that wildcat helicopters with anti-drone capabilities would be in Cyprus this week, with a Royal Navy warship, HMS Dragon, also deployed to the region.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 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
In one cage by his feet was a wildcat for some man who wanted to regain some of his youthful vigor.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
Employees routinely took newborn kangaroos, wildcats and goats home overnight to provide round-the-clock feeding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
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
"Reintroducing wildcats in the south-west without addressing this issue would seem to be doomed to failure," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2025
The idea of cat containment orders could apply to new housing developments where wildlife, including Scottish wildcats, were at particular risk from the pets.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2025
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
Meanwhile, he struck oil, wildcatted himself into more millions than he could count.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides practicing law, he wildcatted for oil with moderate success.
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
With dollars accumulated from purchase and sale of oil leases during boom years around 1906, he "wildcatted."
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
He immigrated to California in his mid-20s and pursued several ventures, including wildcatting for oil in the hills of Coalinga, a Fresno County town.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 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
