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Recent Examples of tomcatAs an actor, Branagh has a voice that’s high, excitable, and light, and his physicality possesses a tomcat sneakiness.—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024 Photo: Mattel and Netflix If Ryan’s tomcat vapidity represents a stereotypical male weakness, Raquelle’s backstabbing materialism plays with its female equivalent.—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024 The tomcat had been spotted wandering with a wound on his chest.—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2024 Note that the scent does not draw squirrels, tomcats, or teenage boys.—James Shreeve, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 The only good feral tomcat is one with an arrow through its head!—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2023 Her big red tomcat, Rex, lolls at her feet.—Suzanne Van Atten, ajc, 12 Oct. 2013 The eggs were fertilized with sperm from a non-fluorescent tomcat and implanted in female cats, and five fluorescent green kittens were born, out of a total of eleven embryos (three now survive, as one was stillborn and another died during birth).—Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2011 That’s because her mother was gray and white and her father was a big orange tomcat.—Karen Jones, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2022
The Harrowing Sewer Rescue Despite already saving the mother and two kittens, the original poster couldn't leave the third kitten behind.
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Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
25 Feb. 2025
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is stopping a successful flu vaccination campaign that juxtaposed images of wild animals, such as a lion, with cute counterparts, like a kitten, as an analogy for how immunization can help tame the flu.
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