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Recent Examples of chamois
The hotel is surrounded by extensive black pine forests and wildlife sightings like Eurasian brown bears, wolves, and Balkan chamois are all possible.
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Chadner Navarro, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2025
The heels are lined with chamois leather and the toes with linen; the soles are pigskin.
—Literary Hub, 4 Aug. 2025
For supreme comfort while riding, choose cycling jerseys, bibs, and shorts from Mission Workshop—you’ll love the soft feel, extra pockets, and protective chamois.
—Wendy Altschuler, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
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.
—AFAR Media, 18 July 2025
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Chadner Navarro, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2025
The heels are lined with chamois leather and the toes with linen; the soles are pigskin.
—Literary Hub, 4 Aug. 2025
For supreme comfort while riding, choose cycling jerseys, bibs, and shorts from Mission Workshop—you’ll love the soft feel, extra pockets, and protective chamois.
—Wendy Altschuler, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
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.
—AFAR Media, 18 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chamois
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Throughout history, kings, queens and other members of the royal family have donned luxurious fur stoles, floor-length fur coats, capes with mink trims and cloaks with ermine edges (that's weasel fur).—
Jennifer Hassan,
USA Today,
14 June 2026
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The tension is thicker than mink.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2026
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There’s the yellow, blue-nosed beaver Norb (Nick Bakay) — witty, sophisticated, sarcastic, and opinionated.—
Skyler Trepel,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 June 2026
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In recent years, however, beaver reintroductions have started to become more popular in the country because these semi-aquatic rodents are amazing natural engineers.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
18 June 2026
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Inspired by the loveable namesake bunny rabbit created by Dutch illustrator Dick Bruna, the show was previously announced as having been sold to Sky for the UK.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
16 June 2026
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Deter Pests and Critters Some gardeners report success in deterring rabbits and deer, along with aphids and ants, with the strong scent of apple cider vinegar.—
Miranda Crowell,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 June 2026
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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
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There’s an art gallery, the Birds of Prey Center, an otter exhibit, and Desertarium, which features turtles, snakes, lizards, frogs, and more.—
Lauren Jones,
Travel + Leisure,
14 June 2026
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Here's what to know about Splash the otter.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
7 June 2026
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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,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
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Although honey badgers are often described online as though venom simply doesn’t affect them, the reality is a bit more nuanced.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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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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In fact, one quite successful muskie artificial lure is fashioned of fur in the shape of a small muskrat, and has a black soft-plastic tail.—
Byron W. Dalrymple,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 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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“Chamois.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chamois. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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