coyote

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Recent Examples of coyote Residents were encouraged to report coyote sightings to Animal Control and let Village security know about folks who let their pets roam off-leash, leave pet food outside and feed coyotes. Daniella Walsh, Oc Register, 21 July 2025 On a recent evening visit, Miller was rattled by the call of coyotes. Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2025 But with fewer than 30 wolves in Colorado-and tens of thousands of coyotes and over 17,000 black bears — that’s not a tie. Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 3 July 2025 In California, the Northern Inner Coast and Santa Cruz mountain ranges that converge on San Francisco from the north and south were never clear-cut, and predators such as mountain lions and coyotes still exist there. Sean Lawrence, The Conversation, 18 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for coyote
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Noun
  • Fill your closet with slip-on sneakers, sleek mules, trendy ballet flats, and more styles for all ]occasions.
    Clara McMahon, People.com, 30 July 2025
  • The unions’ job — to do its best to stop the mule from chucking everything up in the air — thus becomes pretty tricky.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 29 July 2025
Noun
  • Driving Pa Beck back to his mansion, Reacher takes an odd swerve into family counselor mode, telling the gunrunner that his son deserves to know that the reason he’s been made to suffer these last five years is because, welp, his old man is a gunrunner.
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Driving Pa Beck back to his mansion, Reacher takes an odd swerve into family counselor mode, telling the gunrunner that his son deserves to know that the reason he’s been made to suffer these last five years is because, welp, his old man is a gunrunner.
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • With no one willing to help, Lucy became involved with local drug smuggler Shane Maguire (Wilson Bethel).
    Allison DeGrushe Published, EW.com, 29 July 2025
  • Humanitarian groups have expressed concern that smugglers will attempt to guide more migrants through even riskier routes to evade being caught by the Border Patrol.
    Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • The game remained scoreless into extra innings and the Royals never advanced a runner to second base on their own volition.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2025
  • The Grass Valley Emergency Communications Center requested the fire district’s help in airlifting the runner to safety, firefighters said.
    Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 31 July 2025
Noun
  • Her mother’s parents, the Pattis (her first name is her mother’s maiden name), were immigrant bootleggers; their sewing room had removable floorboards to hide whiskey.
    Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • However, when a bootlegger is seen as simply trying to ride others’ success in a self-serving manner, community support quickly wanes, and job opportunities for the bootlegger can even dry out.
    London School of Economics, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025

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“Coyote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coyote. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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