wildcat
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All housecats, Mr. Phillips tells us, are descended from the Middle Eastern wildcat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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
We can just make out stripy ears in the dappled shade inside the Scottish wildcat enclosure.
From BBC ● May 29, 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
Lyra stood up shakily, holding the wildcat Pantalaimon to her breast.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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
It can also help them understand the habitat the wildcats are using.
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
"Reintroducing wildcats in the south-west without addressing this issue would seem to be doomed to failure," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 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
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
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
Meanwhile, he struck oil, wildcatted himself into more millions than he could count.
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
Upon arrival he launched a tuna fish cannery, sold canned produce, opened a chain of laundries in the Coalinga area, and even spent some time wildcatting for oil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2024
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
We didn't know it was wildcatting until after he had tried to repair it.
From Stand by for Mars! by Louis Glanzman
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