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Recent Examples of coyotes
Those are 17 species including fox, bobcat, beaver, raccoon and coyote.
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Olivia Young, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
The film follows Bouchra, a Moroccan coyote filmmaker living in New York, who examines the impact of her homosexuality on her mother Aicha, a cardiologist in Casablanca.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 5 Mar. 2026
Anticipating that fruit was one of the best slices of summer — until a coyote claimed it.
—Mary Grace Granados, Dallas Morning News, 3 Mar. 2026
Surveillance video from a Pasadena home has captured a frightening encounter between a large coyote and a 3-year-old boy.
—Cierra Morgan, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
Last summer, coyote pups were arriving on Southwest Wildlife’s doorstep with heatstroke.
—Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 20 Feb. 2026
Albers said that if a dog wanders too close to a coyote den during puppy season and a territorial adult coyote is at home, the encounter may not end well for the house pet.
—Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 17 Feb. 2026
Talarico remarked that the nasty interloper would provide good color for my story, and then recalled the time that former Governor Rick Perry had encountered a coyote while running outside Austin—and shot it dead.
—Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
The coyote is going to run away.
—Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2026
Olivia Young, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
The film follows Bouchra, a Moroccan coyote filmmaker living in New York, who examines the impact of her homosexuality on her mother Aicha, a cardiologist in Casablanca.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 5 Mar. 2026
Anticipating that fruit was one of the best slices of summer — until a coyote claimed it.
—Mary Grace Granados, Dallas Morning News, 3 Mar. 2026
Surveillance video from a Pasadena home has captured a frightening encounter between a large coyote and a 3-year-old boy.
—Cierra Morgan, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
Last summer, coyote pups were arriving on Southwest Wildlife’s doorstep with heatstroke.
—Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 20 Feb. 2026
Albers said that if a dog wanders too close to a coyote den during puppy season and a territorial adult coyote is at home, the encounter may not end well for the house pet.
—Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 17 Feb. 2026
Talarico remarked that the nasty interloper would provide good color for my story, and then recalled the time that former Governor Rick Perry had encountered a coyote while running outside Austin—and shot it dead.
—Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
The coyote is going to run away.
—Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coyotes
Noun
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Inspectors roam elaborate tunnels used by tomb raiders and smugglers over different eras.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2026
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Eastern Libya has become a key launch point for smugglers, undercutting years of EU efforts to curb departures and making Crete a new pressure point.—
LEFTERIS PITARAKIS,
Arkansas Online,
1 Mar. 2026
Noun
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From embracing bootleggers to pulling its catalog from Spotify, Mackenzie explains how the band has tried to protect its creative core while the industry transforms around it.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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Groucho Marx stars as the new president of Huxley College, who attempts to sign on two pro players to help beat rival Darwin University but ends up getting a pair of bootleggers instead.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Twenty five seconds after the four runners had made the wrong turn, the original officer assigned to work the intersection returned.—
Kevin Dotson,
CNN Money,
4 Mar. 2026
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Yamamoto walked Addison Barger to place runners on the corners, setting up the game-ending double play by Kirk.—
Bill Shaikin,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Coyotes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coyotes. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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