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Recent Examples of domestic animal
Under state statute, the owner of a dog is liable for the full amount of damages their animal has caused by injuring or causing injury to a person, domestic animal or property.
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Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
The Pets Room features more domestic animals in a park and home environment—dogs and cats, a bearded dragon and goldfish.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2025
In Connecticut, animals are tested for rabies virus when people or domestic animals might have been exposed to the virus.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2025
Indiana law states that a person who forcibly enters a vehicle to remove a domestic animal is responsible for half of the cost of repairing the vehicle damage directly caused by the person's forcible entry if certain criteria aren't met.
—Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 20 June 2025
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Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
The Pets Room features more domestic animals in a park and home environment—dogs and cats, a bearded dragon and goldfish.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2025
In Connecticut, animals are tested for rabies virus when people or domestic animals might have been exposed to the virus.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2025
Indiana law states that a person who forcibly enters a vehicle to remove a domestic animal is responsible for half of the cost of repairing the vehicle damage directly caused by the person's forcible entry if certain criteria aren't met.
—Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 20 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for domestic animal
Noun
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Colorado has some of the strongest laws for pets in the country.—
Ed Sayres,
Denver Post,
29 Mar. 2026
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As companies expand benefits to cover a wide variety of employee caregiving needs, back-up care for pets is becoming a more popular work perk along with back-up care for children and aging parents.—
Krysta Escobar,
CNBC,
29 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Cattle, deer and other large herbivores disturb the abodes of bacteria.—
Hannah Kinzer,
The Conversation,
25 Mar. 2026
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Mammoth remains round out the picture of an island once home to apex predators and massive herbivores sharing a landscape virtually unrecognizable to anyone walking through modern Taiwan.—
Hanna Wickes,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
17 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Since the 1950s, coyotes have expanded their geographic range by about 40%, roughly twice the rate of other North American carnivores.—
Miriam Fauzia,
Dallas Morning News,
26 Mar. 2026
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There’s even a whole suborder of carnivores called the pinnipeds, which includes seals, sea lions, and walruses who move between land and water.—
Sara Kiley Watson,
Popular Science,
18 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Moreover, in every case, the ancestors were either insectivores or carnivores, with insect-eaters making the shift about three times more often than carnivores.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
ArsTechnica,
20 Aug. 2025
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Belonging to the same group of mammals as sloths and anteaters, armadillos are voracious insectivores that eat large numbers of beetles, grubs, ants, termites, and other insects, grabbing them with their sticky tongues.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
18 July 2025
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“Domestic animal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/domestic%20animal. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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