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Recent Examples of Persian lamb
Like the spicy wild fish, a fish tartare with spring onions, celery, cilantro, cashews, and lime vinaigrette, that is tangy and fresh, or the equally flavorful Persian lamb cigars, crunchy savory pastries filled with ground lamb and spicy merguez sausage.
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Isabelle Kliger, Forbes, 1 June 2022
Marlene was lovely that evening, after a few brandy-and-Babychams, in her pearl earrings and the precious Persian lamb.
—Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
Isabelle Kliger, Forbes, 1 June 2022
Marlene was lovely that evening, after a few brandy-and-Babychams, in her pearl earrings and the precious Persian lamb.
—Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Persian lamb
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Hikers will pass by Texas persimmon trees and bluestem prairie grass, with armadillos and rabbits popping in and out of the wilderness.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Sep. 2025
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Blanket flowers are deer and rabbit-resistant and drought-tolerant.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
3 Sep. 2025
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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
Noun
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The mixer's bowl boasts a distinctive walnut shade and wood grain pattern, and its food-safe seal means the bowl works hard (and looks good doing it).—
Ella Field,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile on the South Shore this week, an injured seal with a shark bite washed up on a Duxbury beach.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
7 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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Combs and her colleagues ultimately called the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, which took the baby raccoon to a local veterinarian.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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The cake has three candles, but the raccoon seems afraid of the flame, so a human helps blow them out for him; then the raccoon starts eating the cake with his tiny hands.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
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Now native Spartina grasses have returned, as have muskrats and threatened bird species.—
Kyra Morris,
The Atlantic,
22 Aug. 2025
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Its voraciousness has threatened native populations of minks, muskrats, and river otters.—
Nathaniel Rich,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 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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Swift herself broke back in to say that Kelce doesn’t want to take an otter out of the wild, as in taking a pup from its mother.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
15 Aug. 2025
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Surprisingly, local fishers described the species as an occasional bycatch when targeting fish part of the Sciaenidae family to the authors of a new study highlighting this find, led by Jack Sagumai of WWF Pacific.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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That includes rangers who were monitoring animals like the endangered Pacific fisher in California’s Yosemite National Park.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Persian lamb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Persian%20lamb. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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