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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Rachel Nuwer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 Nov. 2020
This cat, the man remarks, may make a good mouser.
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Rebecca Curtis,
The New Yorker,
9 Nov. 2020
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
This cat, the man remarks, may make a good mouser.
—
Rebecca Curtis,
The New Yorker,
9 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mouser
Noun
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Leap across rooftops and squeeze through pipes, all to become the ultimate good kitty.
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There are store cats everywhere that are hanging around, and the store kitties are very friendly.
Noun
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Nowadays, Monson de Kansky still keeps busy, whether by managing the Sierra Madre property; spending time with her four children, six grandchildren and cat, Lizzie; keeping up with current affairs and old friends; or, naturally, teaching dance.
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One solution to this slow cat-and-mouse game might be to incentivize investors to cap the wells, even if they were never involved with them in the past.
Noun
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Gervais has assembled an ensemble cast of felines alongside his main character Gus including Tom Basden, Andrew Brooke, David Earl, Kerry Godliman, Jo Hartley, Diane Morgan, Natalie Cassidy and Tony Way.
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However, after the feline was pulled out, the curious kitten quickly got stuck in the engine of another nearby vehicle.
Noun
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The open house will offer tours of the facility, and there will be opportunities to play with puppies and kittens, meet a wildlife ambassador and visit interactive booths about the work Anderson Humane does, the organization’s website said.
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Some 446 cats were rescued, plus two kittens born later.
Noun
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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.
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Democracy is a tiger, not a pussycat.
Noun
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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.
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For animal lovers, there’s a house cat that wanders the property, and morning walks may include up-close encounters with Highland cows or a free-roaming peacock.
Noun
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Soon a second cat show was organized, this time permitting working men and women to enter their moggies for display.
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“Mouser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mouser. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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