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Recent Examples of muskrat
Painter and Jensen have seen beavers, muskrats, pond turtles, deer and black bears roaming the grounds.
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David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 8 Mar. 2025
Even in her early twenties, Long held staunch opinions on stocking colors and children’s frocks, Christmas cards and muskrat coats.
—The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2025
Imagine a pale roly-poly the size of a muskrat wandering the seafloor.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
The muskrats are depended on by bald eagles, and muskrats are probably the biggest consumer of the freshwater mussels.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 8 Mar. 2025
Even in her early twenties, Long held staunch opinions on stocking colors and children’s frocks, Christmas cards and muskrat coats.
—The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2025
Imagine a pale roly-poly the size of a muskrat wandering the seafloor.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
The muskrats are depended on by bald eagles, and muskrats are probably the biggest consumer of the freshwater mussels.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for muskrat
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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
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Similarly, beaver populations dramatically declined in much of the park by the mid-20th century due to trapping.—
Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
29 Aug. 2025
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Have fun sticking it to the man—or the raccoon, as the case may be.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Butterflies and other pollinators are common visitors, while deer and rabbits leave this plant alone.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
15 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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Those who are lucky may notice foxes, badgers, otters or deer along the route.—
Jeanine Barone,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Levi studies the endangered Humboldt marten, a small carnivore that lives on the Northern California and Southern Oregon coast.—
Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
28 Aug. 2025
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This acquisition will improve the habitat for Wisconsin’s endangered American marten, which has been facing a dwindling habitat.—
Noël Fletcher,
Forbes,
8 Dec. 2024
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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
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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
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“Muskrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muskrat. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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