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Recent Examples of mice
Particularly caring mice dads will groom their pups and even insulate them with their bellies against inclement weather.
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Feb. 2026
Stained clothing, furniture, and rugs, anything that smells musty or mildewy, and items stored in spaces with termite, bedbug, or mice infestations should be thrown away rather than donated.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 8 Jan. 2026
In our marketing, the Get-Ready Yeti and the gifting mice Lenny, Berry, and Merry have become breakout stars.
—Cara Sylvester, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2025
This year, scientists in China fed mice diets prepared on boards made of different plastic types.
—Matt Fuchs, Time, 24 Nov. 2025
Obese mice that were treated with the gene therapy, which Fractyl calls Rejuva, lost about 20% of their body weight within three weeks.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
Shows promise in mice models The brain is metabolically demanding, depending on a complex vascular system to supply energy and remove waste.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025
Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Feb. 2026
Stained clothing, furniture, and rugs, anything that smells musty or mildewy, and items stored in spaces with termite, bedbug, or mice infestations should be thrown away rather than donated.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 8 Jan. 2026
In our marketing, the Get-Ready Yeti and the gifting mice Lenny, Berry, and Merry have become breakout stars.
—Cara Sylvester, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2025
This year, scientists in China fed mice diets prepared on boards made of different plastic types.
—Matt Fuchs, Time, 24 Nov. 2025
Obese mice that were treated with the gene therapy, which Fractyl calls Rejuva, lost about 20% of their body weight within three weeks.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
Shows promise in mice models The brain is metabolically demanding, depending on a complex vascular system to supply energy and remove waste.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mice
Noun
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Parties aside, the majority of our legislators are cowards.—
Sam Meas,
Boston Herald,
2 Mar. 2026
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And Trump calls ’em almost like cowards.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The icicles that the Barton Family shared with us are much different.—
Ray Petelin,
CBS News,
28 Feb. 2026
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This melting snow then runs downwards and refreezes, causing, in some cases, some pretty scary looking icicles.—
Asia London Palomba,
The Spruce,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Other proposals floated over the decades included towing icebergs from Alaska or Antarctica, diverting rivers from the rainy Pacific Northwest or even piping Great Lakes water thousands of miles west across the Continental Divide.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
15 Mar. 2026
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The hazards of glacial lakes Glacial lakes, often the color of aquamarine gems and sparkling with icebergs, are common around the margins of glaciers around the world.—
Dan McGrath,
The Conversation,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Observing jellyfish gametes develop under a microscope lured him away from the neat logic of physics and chemistry and into the dynamic processes of biology.—
Marlowe Starling,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Mar. 2026
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Not every jellyfish gets its own museum.—
Susannah Bryan,
Sun Sentinel,
18 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The moment has been so baked into America's cultural cake that Tea Party Republicans parroted the phrase, not realizing that the film is a satire of sheep mentality and the man who authored it (screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky) was a political lefty.—
Devan Coggan,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Mar. 2026
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The farmer manages a male-only herd of sheep.—
Lisa Gutierrez
March 13,
Kansas City Star,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Linas, a runner, started the Creek Team OC Instagram account after noticing changes on his runs along San Juan and Trabuco creeks, where lush green reeds suddenly turned brown and lifeless.—
Ian James,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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The protagonist is a nine-year-old girl named Lamia (Baneen Ahmad Nayyef), who lives with her grandmother (Waheed Thabet Khreibat), in a mudhif, a house of twisted reeds, in Iraq’s southern marshlands.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Mice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mice. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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