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or battle-axe
as in shrew
a bad-tempered scolding woman
the veteran stage actress stole every scene with a tour de force performance as the dysfunctional family's battle-ax matriarch
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shrew
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The researchers went through hundreds of rodent and shrew carcasses to look for mpox infections and found one: the carcass of a squirrel that had died less than three months before the outbreak started.—
Lillian Ali,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Apr. 2025 -
While native mammals span from the endemic Cretan lesser white-toothed shrew to the Blasius’s horseshoe bat, the preserve is perhaps best known for its high concentration of Cretan goats, a type of ruminant that serves as the official mascot of the park.—
Jared Ranahan,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Battle-ax.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/battle-ax. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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