wildcat
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There are now plans to reintroduce wildcat populations into other areas in Scotland.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
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
Word spread that a new band was throwing wildcat ragers in the ugliest parts of town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
Pantalaimon became a wildcat and scanned the dark all around with his night-piercing eyes.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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
"They say wildcats live on voles. Well, voles are feeding my barn owls so if you reduce the vole population you are having an effect on the barn owls," he explained.
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
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
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
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
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
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
But others were wildcatting operations that processed and burned waste left over from recycling without regard to human health or the environment.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2020
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
We didn't know it was wildcatting until after he had tried to repair it.
From Stand by for Mars! by Louis Glanzman
