chamois

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Recent Examples of chamois The channels between the chamois panels further enhance the ventilation while preventing bunching. Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2025 The removable liner and chamois provide support even through rougher rides, and the longer length can cover your knee pads. Bestreviews, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2025 These subtly slim joggers are the perfect swap for my chamois on the drive back home—soft, stretchy, and stink-resistant, thanks to their 85 percent merino wool construction. Lily Ritter, Outside Online, 11 Nov. 2024 This is then gently buffed in using a chamois (a natural leather) tool. Tori Crowther, refinery29.com, 12 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for chamois
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Noun
  • My grandmother treasures a mink coat her father bought her more than 60 years ago.
    Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The adjacent chamber is in glittering gold tiles and features designs that are themselves mosaics of jewels, silks, sequins and even mink.
    Jane Wooldridge, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • While figuring out a way to bring the animals back and halt the dynamiting of the dam on the edge of her pond, Mabel witnesses a beaver being thrown in the back of a van and whisked off to Beaverton University.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Mabel is welcomed by the local beaver community, notably their gentle king, George, a let’s-keep-the-peace sort of dude who’s the soul of tolerance.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • But if we’re all getting corralled to this area by this little Bugs Bunny rabbit?
    Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The white rabbit dives down the hole.
    Daniel Smith, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Wolverines are beagle-sized carnivores related to weasels, ermines, badgers, martens, otters, and black footed ferrets, all of which are native to this state.
    Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The coastal marten, also known as the Humboldt marten, is about the size of a ferret and lives in coastal forests.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Park staff are checking camera traps, wading out into the park's swampy wilderness and encouraging visitors to share any otter sightings.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The little animals that will come to be emblematic of the 2026 Games are stoats, extremely cute critters that in real life are related to the weasel and the otter.
    Mark Scaglione, NBC news, 3 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Further complicating the mustelids’ lexical family tree, the Haida ermine, found on islands off the Pacific Northwest coast, was also once considered a subspecies of the common stoat, but is now recognized as its own species.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Wolverines are beagle-sized carnivores related to weasels, ermines, badgers, martens, otters, and black footed ferrets, all of which are native to this state.
    Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • That includes foxes, minks, muskrats, otters, least weasels and bobcats.
    Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Now native Spartina grasses have returned, as have muskrats and threatened bird species.
    Kyra Morris, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2025

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“Chamois.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chamois. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.

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