Thesaurus results for BADGERS

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noun

plural of badger

as in foxes

the pelt or fur of a badger The boutique features a variety of scarfs, including badger, fox, and ermine.

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verb

present tense third-person singular of badger

as in teases

to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp reminders He's always badgering me about the dishes.

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Noun

Over the next several decades, a roll call of Pennsylvania’s native animals would be extirpated, including mountain lions, wolves, wolverines, badgers, pine marten, and fisher cats; whitetail deer were nearly wiped out of the state, as were black bears and turkeys. —

Literary Hub, 10 June 2026 Honey Badgers’ Bodies Are Built Like Armor Honey badgers are also physically difficult animals to injure in the first place. —

Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026 Otters are part of the weasel family (Mustelidae), which includes some of nature’s most ferocious pint-sized predators, such as badgers, martens, and wolverines. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 Apr. 2026 Dachshunds are clever hunters, bred hundreds of years ago in Germany to sniff out badgers. —

Mindy Schauer, Oc Register, 8 Apr. 2026 The Eastern Colorado prairie was once carpeted with a mix of hardy grasses, flowering plants, and small shrubs that supported great herds of bison and pronghorn, abundant prairie dog colonies, predators like coyotes, foxes, and badgers, as well as numerous bird species, reptiles, and insects. —

Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2026 The land abutting the Pinto Mountains Wilderness is also home to badgers, bighorn sheep and Mojave fringe-toed lizards. —

Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2026 Lundberg’s confidence reflects that of his players, who’ve been instilled with the vision of being honey badgers. —

John Wawrow, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2026 Her worries grow when a group of badgers takes over the Rabbit School and steals the Egg. —

Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026

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The aliens’ ability to take on the forms of stags, foxes and cardinals is also in line with what experiencers have reported about their visitations.

— Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 13 June 2026
But if a fox cub is in trouble, there are usually obvious clues that something isn't quite right.

— Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 13 June 2026