wildcat
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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
All housecats, Mr. Phillips tells us, are descended from the Middle Eastern wildcat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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
We can just make out stripy ears in the dappled shade inside the Scottish wildcat enclosure.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
They wore feathered caps banded with wildcat fur and smoked long pipes as they dozed in the heat.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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
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 Ark Wildlife Park, near Boston, Lincolnshire has 232 animals in its care including meerkats, crocodiles, snakes and wildcats.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026
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
With dollars accumulated from purchase and sale of oil leases during boom years around 1906, he "wildcatted."
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
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
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
You may use the comment thread on this page to regale one another with tales of your own activities as wildcatting junior miners or to pursue other points of off-topic, freewheeling discourse.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2018
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
They cool the reactant fuel to keep it from getting too hot and wildcatting.
From Treachery in Outer Space by Louis Glanzman
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