1
: of or relating to a bear or the bear family (Ursidae)
2
: suggesting or characteristic of a bear
a lumbering ursine gait
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The 2025 feed let fans follow the progression of seven dogs from ursine fluffballs to gangly adolescents by the time the stream shut down on Oct. 7.
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Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 6 May 2026
Aside from the fact that there hasn’t been a true brown bear, or California grizzly, in the Golden State since in the 1920s, the way the ferocious — albeit slightly skinny — beast was moving looked less ursine and more human.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2026
Someone dressed in a big blue bear costume — an homage to the 40-foot ursine behemoth who peers into the Colorado Convention Center along 14th Street in downtown Denver — has already been getting a lot of attention from attendees, the party chair said.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 10 Apr. 2026
Although it’s been a year and a half since Americans learned that the then–presidential candidate once dumped an ursine carcass in Central Park, the facts are so deeply strange that the joke’s still good.
—Michael Tedder, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2026
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Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 6 May 2026
Aside from the fact that there hasn’t been a true brown bear, or California grizzly, in the Golden State since in the 1920s, the way the ferocious — albeit slightly skinny — beast was moving looked less ursine and more human.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2026
Someone dressed in a big blue bear costume — an homage to the 40-foot ursine behemoth who peers into the Colorado Convention Center along 14th Street in downtown Denver — has already been getting a lot of attention from attendees, the party chair said.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 10 Apr. 2026
Although it’s been a year and a half since Americans learned that the then–presidential candidate once dumped an ursine carcass in Central Park, the facts are so deeply strange that the joke’s still good.
—Michael Tedder, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2026
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“Ursine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ursine. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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