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verb

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of fox
Noun
In June, officials in Grand Teton issued a warning that a fox was suspected of stealing 19 shoes and boots from a remote campground, apparently attracted by their strong odor. Ruffin Prevost, AFAR Media, 18 July 2025 Using a network of trail cameras, Wails and her colleagues watched how the island’s ecosystem has evolved over the past decade, and how other predatory species, such as raccoons and opossums, responded to the sudden dearth of foxes. Ramin Skibba, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2025
Verb
The speech also tackled an issue that has foxed previous governments: reforming the House of Lords. Jill Lawless, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 July 2024 Raccoon: Raccoon is very similar to fox but rarely comes in any other colors besides that of a typical raccoon which is naturally ombré. Liana Satenstein, Marie Claire, 13 Feb. 2014 See All Example Sentences for fox
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fox
Noun
  • While Jon is bound to leadership by a sense of duty, Daenerys sees herself as a liberator, a queen steeped in moral righteousness who freed slaves across the sea for the greater good.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 July 2017
  • THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.
    Cole Kazdin, Los Angeles Magazine, 14 July 2017
Noun
  • Selves propagate in Oyeyemi’s fiction: as dolls, doppelgängers, a changeling with double pupils.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The researchers looked at the responses of 69 pet dogs of varying breeds to a realistic animatronic cat doll.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • For a technology with obvious advantages, that's puzzling.
    Dmitri Verbovski, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Exactly what's causing the delay is still puzzling students, colleges and experts.
    Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • But appearances can be deceiving because there's a lot of bright side here.
    Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Some Russian media commentators also note how Alaska was once Russian territory, sold by Tsar Alexander II to the United States for a pittance in 1867 Many observers, particularly Russian, are dismissing the meeting as a sign Trump has allowed Putin to once again deceive him.
    Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The call sheet for a scene might include the moon goddess Selene, Ariana Grande, and Hedy Lamarr.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Some of the etchings, Bar-Ron says, seem to reflect resistance to the goddess's worship from Semitic workers.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Fanny and Stella, middle-class lovelies in hoop skirts, engage in a warm embrace.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
  • In an early scene, poor Christian attends a dating event, having gamed the system, with his perfect numerical logic, so that all the potential lovelies are lined up at his table.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • First of all, I’m baffled how any sort of mail, let alone bags and bags of it, was able to travel from a bloody battlefield to London.
    Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • But when Harper-as-Anna attempts to flirt with him, he’s baffled.
    Esther Zuckerman, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The strength of record metric rewards teams for defeating quality opponents and minimizes the penalty for losing to good teams.
    Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Hamas is severely weakened but not defeated Hamas has suffered heavy losses through nearly two years of war.
    Samy Magdy, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025

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“Fox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fox. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.

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