Thesaurus results for COYOTES

coyotes

noun

variants or coyote

plural of coyote

as in gunrunners

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Recent Examples of coyotes And the coyote isn’t a top threat to the species in this unforgiving world. — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 21 Sep. 2026 Anyone who is bitten or attacked by a coyote should call 911. — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2026 The petition was inspired by a coyote with an extremely swollen face that roamed through a Studio City neighborhood for more than a year, which residents named Wendy. — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026 That was until mom heard her daughter scream and saw the coyote going after the girl. — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2026 The new policy prohibits fur from animals killed specifically for their pelts, including mink, fox, rabbit, chinchilla and coyote. — ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026 Alex Flickinger, a spokesperson for the agency, told AZ Family that Cardinal did everything recommended during a coyote attack. — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2026 The painting’s joyful casualness belies its subject matter, clues to which can be found in the coyote on one of the men’s shirts and in the work’s title, Uncle’s Crossing (2022). — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026 But the coyote has other plans and rips it up, forcing the matter to trial. — ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026

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Such go-fast boats were designed for offshore racing but were later commandeered by drug smugglers in South Florida during the 1980s.

— Robb Report, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026
All the passengers were migrants who paid smugglers to take them from the Bahamas to South Florida, Homeland Security Investigations agents said.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of smugglers

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Artificial intelligence developers have borrowed the word to describe boiling down a big AI model into a smaller one—and lately the biggest AI companies say that rivals have been distilling like bootleggers.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
Others are following the Styles pop-up playbook and fully leaning into exclusivity — offering not just apparel, but also experiences that fans can’t get from the bootleggers.

— Matt Martell, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of bootleggers

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In Utah, dozens of runners and volunteers who were part of the Moab 240 ultramarathon were evacuated Sunday after being stranded by flooding.

— JAIMIE DING, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026
The night before, Teoscar Hernández had zeroed in on the Dodgers’ at-bats with runners in scoring position in his postgame comments.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

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