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Keep your eyes peeled—and binoculars handy—for goat-like chamois, bearded vultures, and beavers against the stunning backdrop of Eiger, Mönch, Jungfrau, and the steep Justistal Valley below.
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AFAR Media, 18 July 2025
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
This is then gently buffed in using a chamois (a natural leather) tool.
—Tori Crowther, refinery29.com, 12 July 2024
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AFAR Media, 18 July 2025
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
This is then gently buffed in using a chamois (a natural leather) tool.
—Tori Crowther, refinery29.com, 12 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chamois
Noun
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The tension is thicker than mink.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2026
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His white mink coat had a tail as long as the entrance ramp.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
19 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Read more on how the British beavers are helping to combat flooding.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
21 May 2026
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See where the beaver is going nextNeed a news break?—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
14 May 2026
Noun
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Beef cheeks and tongues, Frenched racks of lamb, glistening hams, poulet de Bresse, and rabbits still with their heads, round eyes blinkless under long lashes frozen in the ice.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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The program has expanded to include guinea pigs, chickens, doves, goats, turtles and rabbits.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
31 May 2026
Noun
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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,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
8 Apr. 2026
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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
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An otter popped up out of one hole, followed quickly by another otter out of the other.—
Robert Annis,
Midwest Living,
16 May 2026
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Sea otter surrogacy programs are designed to mimic what happens in the wild, where pups rely heavily on their mothers to teach them how to survive.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
10 May 2026
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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
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This bosque can support more than 250 species, from Costa’s hummingbirds to badgers and jackrabbits.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 May 2026
Noun
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Courtesy of Julie Montagu She’d found the Earl’s coronation robe and waistcoat, complete with ermine.—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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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
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And from there, titters occasionally came out as the unleashed host moved on to one of the highest forms of comedy, muskrat humor.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
23 May 2026
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But past royal visits to Washington have sometimes gone awry − from amorous muskrats to a talking hat.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Chamois.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chamois. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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