mouser

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Recent Examples of mouser At this point, Larry the cat, the Downing Street chief mouser, may be one of the country's few remaining sources of political continuity. Gail Krishnan, CNBC, 23 June 2026 The Kelce family may soon be growing again, but this time with a fur baby, particularly a mouser cat. Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 11 June 2026 Snakes, such as garter snakes and thread snakes, eat snails, ant larvae, and other invertebrates, while gopher snakes, rat snakes, and other larger snakes are excellent mousers and will even take packrats, Amarello says. Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 6 May 2026 Bishop herself appears in the belly of an especially large robot that very vaguely resembles a mouser with arms and feels a lot like a hint at Krang, the evil brain from Dimension X that terrorized the Turtles in the 1987 cartoon series. Wes Davis, The Verge, 9 June 2024 Aoshima, after all, hadn’t always been a cat island; once, it had been populated mostly by people, fishermen, who brought the cats over to work as mousers. Hanya Yanagihara Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 10 May 2023 Though cats had been employed as chief mousers for centuries, Larry was the first to be given the official title. Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2023 Koudounaris learned of an army tomcat named the Colonel, for example, who was stationed at San Francisco’s Presidio in the 1890s and was said to be the best mouser the army ever had. Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2020 The 12-year-old tabby is the government’s official chief mouser to the Cabinet Office. Washington Post, 24 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mouser
Noun
  • Loan pools like the Chinese hui, the Japanese tanomoshi and the Korean kye involve groups of investors who pay into a kitty that is then doled out on a rotating basis.
    Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
  • Leap across rooftops and squeeze through pipes, all to become the ultimate good kitty.
    Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • The 16,000-square-foot Ramona Station store will sell an assortment of pet care essentials for cats, dogs, fish, birds, reptiles and small pets.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2026
  • The flashbacks deliver some classic cat-and-mouse conspiracy-thriller action, as these two try to figure out who’s on their tail.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 24 July 2026
Noun
  • On the flip side, grooming can also be used to send a stern message, the study found, particularly in the felines’ display of asymmetrical body postures such as one cat leaning over the other one.
    Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 20 July 2026
  • When the rescue team found the cat, its eyes were caked with dust and debris, and after extraction, the feline received hydration and medical care.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026
Noun
  • Puppies, kittens, senior pets, and brachycephalic breeds are at higher risk.
    Jen Reeder, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • While on Instagram, notice that there are kittens up for adoption.
    Ginny Hogan, New Yorker, 21 July 2026
Noun
  • Oh, and there’s also the plot following a community of junkyard pussycats competing in a talent show to decide who is allowed to die and be reborn in the Heaviside Layer — cat heaven.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2026
  • Democracy is a tiger, not a pussycat.
    Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The creature, smaller than a house cat and uniquely round, waddled across a patch of grass before climbing a staircase and disappearing over a fence.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
  • Officials now are seeing more house cats abandoned on the streets as the price of pet food and veterinary care has skyrocketed since the pandemic, according to Sarai Rivera, founder of My Bella TNR cat rescue in Hartford.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • Soon a second cat show was organized, this time permitting working men and women to enter their moggies for display.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Trucker reunited with cat A US trucker was reunited with his cat after the moggy fled from his vehicle during a pit stop at a truck stop in Nevada.
    Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week UK, theweek, 9 Jan. 2024

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“Mouser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mouser. Accessed 29 Jul. 2026.

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