mouser

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Recent Examples of mouser Bishop herself appears in the belly of an especially large robot that very vaguely resembles a mouser with arms and feels a lot like a hint at Krang, the evil brain from Dimension X that terrorized the Turtles in the 1987 cartoon series. Wes Davis, The Verge, 9 June 2024 Aoshima, after all, hadn’t always been a cat island; once, it had been populated mostly by people, fishermen, who brought the cats over to work as mousers. Hanya Yanagihara Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 10 May 2023 Though cats had been employed as chief mousers for centuries, Larry was the first to be given the official title. Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2023 This cat, the man remarks, may make a good mouser. Rebecca Curtis, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020 Koudounaris learned of an army tomcat named the Colonel, for example, who was stationed at San Francisco’s Presidio in the 1890s and was said to be the best mouser the army ever had. Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2020 The 12-year-old tabby is the government’s official chief mouser to the Cabinet Office. Washington Post, 24 July 2019 As mousers, cats earn their keep guarding the sacks of grain that are essential to distilleries and breweries. Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017 Philadelphia’s Animal Care and Control Team established the program about four years ago to place unadoptable cats — the biters and the skittish, the swatters and the ones who won’t use a litter box — into jobs as mousers at barns or stables. Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mouser
Noun
  • Who gets what, from the NIL kitty and the new $20 million revenue-share pot resulting from House v. NCAA, is a complicated exercise, period.
    Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 11 July 2025
  • See you soon! — Deb Heise, Sun Cities 4 Paws Catty Perry: Out of this world cute Gorgeous Catty Perry is a 2-year-old, medium coat, tuxedo kitty.
    AZCentral.com, AZCentral.com, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Seely is survived by numerous friends, family members, and her special cat, Corrie.
    Lauren Huff Published, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2025
  • There’s a variety of jokes about his three cats, one of which quickly transitions into being a joke about Maron’s own concern about SSRIs.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The kitten has now been successfully trapped and rescued.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Three other kittens had gotten stuck inside of her and died.
    Simone Jasper July 31, Charlotte Observer, 31 July 2025
Noun
  • The pussycat bow blouse, which was popularized in the 1970s among professional women, is a feminine version of a traditional tie.
    Therèsa M. Winge, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Sapphira’s outfit is the wrong color, but her literal pussycat wig is funny.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • Trucker reunited with cat A US trucker was reunited with his cat after the moggy fled from his vehicle during a pit stop at a truck stop in Nevada.
    Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week UK, theweek, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Diodorus Siculus, a Greek author who wrote in the first century A.D., recounts the tale of a Roman soldier who made the mistake of killing a sacred moggy in Egypt.
    Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2022
Noun
  • The bird flu that's been killing flocks of wild birds and causing outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows across the United States has another unlikely victim: house cats.
    Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 15 July 2025
  • Bobcats are known to be skilled predators and have longer claws and teeth than domestic house cats.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 2 Apr. 2025

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“Mouser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mouser. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.

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