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Recent Examples of domestic animal
If a pack of coyotes happens on the set between daily trap checks, that domestic animal doesn’t have a chance.
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Skye Goode, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025
Meanwhile, in the U.S., two million domestic animals board commercial flights every year.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025
If a pack of coyotes happens on the set between daily trap checks, that domestic animal doesn’t have a chance.
—Skye Goode, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025
Complicating the efforts are cases of Guinea worm disease detected in domestic animals.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 31 Dec. 2024
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Skye Goode, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025
Meanwhile, in the U.S., two million domestic animals board commercial flights every year.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025
If a pack of coyotes happens on the set between daily trap checks, that domestic animal doesn’t have a chance.
—Skye Goode, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025
Complicating the efforts are cases of Guinea worm disease detected in domestic animals.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for domestic animal
Noun
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Tuesday's Live moment recalled a 2023 instance on the show where fill-in cohost Anderson Cooper was compared to pets live on the air, with the program offering up side-by-side shots of the CNN journalist and a small dog named — no joke — Cooper Anderson.—
Joey Nolfi Published,
EW.com,
3 June 2025
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On June 1, a dog owner was walking her two pets in Steamboat Springs when she was attacked by a mama moose, officials said.—
Paloma Chavez,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2025
Noun
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Unlike most hockey players, Mammuthus was an herbivore.—
Sarah Larson,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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An April 2025 study in Frontiers in Biogeography takes another look at these extinct herbivores, which were wiped out by human hunting during the last Ice Age between around 50,000 and 34,000 years ago.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The carnivore diet is a way of eating that only includes animal products.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
2 June 2025
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The finding tracks with past research that suggests T. rex was more closely related to the large carnivore Tarbosaurus in Asia compared with top predators in North America such as Daspletosaurus, Morrison said in a statement.—
Jack Guy,
CNN Money,
6 May 2025
Noun
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More on Groundhogs Moles Moles are insectivores, tunneling to find food.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
8 May 2025
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The sparrowhawk is an aggressive bird of prey, adept at hunting and fighting, while the cuckoo’s nest targets are smaller birds and mostly insectivores.—
Nathan H. Lents,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Domestic animal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/domestic%20animal. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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