marten

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Recent Examples of marten For the last eight years, Pauli has been studying American martens on the island. Siddhant Pusdekar, Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2024 Wolverines are in the Mustelidae family, a group of carnivorous mammals, along with weasels, mink, marten and otters, according got the National Park Service. Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2023 In North America, the loss of large, old-growth trees could reduce the ranks of forest specialists, such as martens and fishers, members of the weasel family that den inside tree hollows. Emily Anthes, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023 Beavers expand the water system on the Baldwin Peninsula, improving the conditions for fish and insects, which in turn creates more food for minks, otters and martens. Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2023 See All Example Sentences for marten
Recent Examples of Synonyms for marten
Noun
  • Ksenia, whom Baranov meets at a hedonistic party in the early 1990s as counterculturals rage amid the dawn of a new, post-USSR Russian era, is indicated as a grifting wild thing, the type who always has a mysterious male benefactor to keep her in minks.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
  • On the smaller side, species like the river otter and mink can be found feasting on fish by the water’s edge, while lucky visitors may catch a glimpse of a wolverine roaming the tundra—and these are far from the only predators that call Katmai home.
    Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • And all of a sudden, an otter comes right up to the glass and begins interacting with them, soon joined by a second otter.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The otter’s work in the wild presents unique dangers, most notably from alligators that aren’t present in Splash’s training pools.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Around that same time, English merchants began offering Caribbean rum to the Shawnee and other Native groups as part of the trade in deerskins and beaver pelts.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Similarly, beaver populations dramatically declined in much of the park by the mid-20th century due to trapping.
    Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • His real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio; his stage name, as fans later learned, was inspired by a childhood photograph that captured him, scowling, in a rabbit costume.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Butterflies and other pollinators are common visitors, while deer and rabbits leave this plant alone.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While intentionally bred to be independent hunters of badgers, dachshunds can be brave, yet rash and stubborn.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Those who are lucky may notice foxes, badgers, otters or deer along the route.
    Jeanine Barone, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Have fun sticking it to the man—or the raccoon, as the case may be.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Both viruses are highly contagious and often fatal to mammals, such as dogs and raccoons, according to information from the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine and the American Veterinary Medical Association.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Flowers bloom in riverbank gardens near where fishers angle to hook one of the over 70 species of fish in the water, up from less than 10 before the passage of the Clean Water Act.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The short season, when thousands of fishers and crew live on Bristol Bay, home of the world’s largest sockeye population, for about six short weeks, others processing on land, provides the global supply of sockeye salmon for the entire year to come.
    Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Now native Spartina grasses have returned, as have muskrats and threatened bird species.
    Kyra Morris, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Its voraciousness has threatened native populations of minks, muskrats, and river otters.
    Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025

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“Marten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marten. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.

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