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Other unusual animals that can be legally owned in the state include ferrets and chinchillas, llamas, alpacas, giraffes, bison, antelopes and marsupials like kangaroos.
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Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 9 June 2025
Those liposomes were then added to a temperature-sensitive hydrogel, which was applied to the eardrums of chinchillas with middle ear infections.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 6 June 2025
Ace, a seven-year-old, had spent time around cats, dogs and even horses, but the mouse-sized chinchilla under Clark’s tent made the boy uneasy.
—J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 30 May 2025
Lucas retains his hold on the lucrative smack market largely because of his ability to not attract attention; his eventual downfall is hastened by the regrettable decision to stand out in a crowd for once and rock a chinchilla fur coat and matching hat at a prizefight.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2024
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Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 9 June 2025
Those liposomes were then added to a temperature-sensitive hydrogel, which was applied to the eardrums of chinchillas with middle ear infections.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 6 June 2025
Ace, a seven-year-old, had spent time around cats, dogs and even horses, but the mouse-sized chinchilla under Clark’s tent made the boy uneasy.
—J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 30 May 2025
Lucas retains his hold on the lucrative smack market largely because of his ability to not attract attention; his eventual downfall is hastened by the regrettable decision to stand out in a crowd for once and rock a chinchilla fur coat and matching hat at a prizefight.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chinchilla
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Ksenia, whom Baranov meets at a hedonistic party in the early 1990s as counterculturals rage amid the dawn of a new, post-USSR Russian era, is indicated as a grifting wild thing, the type who always has a mysterious male benefactor to keep her in minks.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
31 Aug. 2025
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On the smaller side, species like the river otter and mink can be found feasting on fish by the water’s edge, while lucky visitors may catch a glimpse of a wolverine roaming the tundra—and these are far from the only predators that call Katmai home.—
Jared Ranahan,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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Hikers will pass by Texas persimmon trees and bluestem prairie grass, with armadillos and rabbits popping in and out of the wilderness.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Sep. 2025
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Blanket flowers are deer and rabbit-resistant and drought-tolerant.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
3 Sep. 2025
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Combs and her colleagues ultimately called the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, which took the baby raccoon to a local veterinarian.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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The cake has three candles, but the raccoon seems afraid of the flame, so a human helps blow them out for him; then the raccoon starts eating the cake with his tiny hands.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
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Around that same time, English merchants began offering Caribbean rum to the Shawnee and other Native groups as part of the trade in deerskins and beaver pelts.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Aug. 2025
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Similarly, beaver populations dramatically declined in much of the park by the mid-20th century due to trapping.—
Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
29 Aug. 2025
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Now native Spartina grasses have returned, as have muskrats and threatened bird species.—
Kyra Morris,
The Atlantic,
22 Aug. 2025
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Its voraciousness has threatened native populations of minks, muskrats, and river otters.—
Nathaniel Rich,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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The otter’s work in the wild presents unique dangers, most notably from alligators that aren’t present in Splash’s training pools.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Aug. 2025
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Swift herself broke back in to say that Kelce doesn’t want to take an otter out of the wild, as in taking a pup from its mother.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
15 Aug. 2025
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There are a lot of real dangers out there – and real badgers.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
22 Aug. 2025
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It is dipped in yellow icing, drizzled with chocolate and cookie crunch and features a badger emblem, of course.—
Sabrina Weiss,
People.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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As The Times described the day: In white and black tie, in sequins and sables and clouds of perfume, Republican revelers stepped out tonight to the most lavish series of inaugural balls ever held in the nation’s capital.—
Andrew Ross Sorkin,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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Madison gives you 100-percent of this on a fake silver platter, dressed up in real Russian sables.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
16 Oct. 2024
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“Chinchilla.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chinchilla. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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