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Recent Examples of muskrat
Take a seat for a round-the-clock show: the ruffed grouse, cottontail rabbits, waterfowl and occasional muskrats that wander about, lured by the lake.
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R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Painter and Jensen have seen beavers, muskrats, pond turtles, deer and black bears roaming the grounds.
—David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 8 Mar. 2025
Even in her early twenties, Long held staunch opinions on stocking colors and children’s frocks, Christmas cards and muskrat coats.
—The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2025
Imagine a pale roly-poly the size of a muskrat wandering the seafloor.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Painter and Jensen have seen beavers, muskrats, pond turtles, deer and black bears roaming the grounds.
—David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 8 Mar. 2025
Even in her early twenties, Long held staunch opinions on stocking colors and children’s frocks, Christmas cards and muskrat coats.
—The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2025
Imagine a pale roly-poly the size of a muskrat wandering the seafloor.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for muskrat
Noun
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Another possible explanation for the name is that this was also the season when people set beaver traps during the fur trade.—
Chantelle Lee,
Time,
4 Nov. 2025
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What is special about a beaver moon?—
Tiffany Acosta,
AZCentral.com,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Even in the dead of winter, breeding season starts for gray foxes, red foxes, coyotes, bobcats, raccoons and squirrels.—
Charles Seabrook,
AJC.com,
3 Jan. 2026
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No one wants to see that out or pick it up when raccoons knock it over.—
Ticked Off,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Armadillo, mink, weasel and otter all hold varying degrees of risk associated with consumption.—
Stuart Dyos,
USA Today,
29 Oct. 2025
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The farmer, his son and grandson were still collecting mink, with more than a dozen live traps deployed and checked routinely, Hobbs said.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Areas of South Florida where the snakes have become dominant have seen a 90% to 99% decrease in sightings of mammal such as rabbits, opossums and raccoons.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Jan. 2026
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To ensure the materials were safe for biological use, the friction layers was tested on a rabbit’s eye, where the device maintained its charge without irritating.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Jan. 2026
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Several chocolate molds have been found including Fetzer’s signature otter mold.—
La Risa R. Lynch,
jsonline.com,
26 Dec. 2025
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The otters are considered the smallest and most social of the 13 otter species.—
Mona Darwish,
Oc Register,
21 Dec. 2025
Noun
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When birds and badgers are fat in October, a cold winter is expected.—
Brandi D. Addison,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
31 Oct. 2025
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Dachshunds, originally bred in Germany for hunting badgers, are known for their persistence, energy and strong prey drive.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Levi studies the endangered Humboldt marten, a small carnivore that lives on the Northern California and Southern Oregon coast.—
Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
28 Aug. 2025
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This acquisition will improve the habitat for Wisconsin’s endangered American marten, which has been facing a dwindling habitat.—
Noël Fletcher,
Forbes,
8 Dec. 2024
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Historically, local shrimp fishers accidentally caught the small porpoises in gill nets, inadvertently killing them.—
Ryan Green,
Scientific American,
6 Nov. 2025
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Most of these migrants were fisher-hunter-gatherers and belonged to numerous ethnic groups who left vital evidence of their presence in stones, burial sites, and artifacts.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Muskrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muskrat. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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