muskrat

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Recent Examples of muskrat 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 The muskrats are depended on by bald eagles, and muskrats are probably the biggest consumer of the freshwater mussels. Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for muskrat
Recent Examples of Synonyms for muskrat
Noun
  • Along the way, visitors may spot signs of the sanctuary’s most visible resident, the beaver, from impressive dams to cleverly constructed dens and lodges, as well as birds such as the snow goose, lapland longspur, and chimney swift.
    Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2025
  • In this case, the engineers did not reshape logs that had been carved by a beaver.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Some of the terrain includes a waterfall, California live oak trees, sycamore trees, volcanic rocks, a freshwater marsh and locals such as Pacific tree frogs, mallard ducks, raccoons and coyotes.
    Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • But when raccoons move in too close, trouble follows.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • One side has faux fur with a bubble texture, and the other has a soft micro mink lining.
    Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Ksenia, whom Baranov meets at a hedonistic party in the early 1990s as counterculturals rage amid the dawn of a new, post-USSR Russian era, is indicated as a grifting wild thing, the type who always has a mysterious male benefactor to keep her in minks.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Deer and rabbits won't eat them.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Today, Romulus and Remus are reportedly healthy, weighing more than 120 pounds each, and consuming over five pounds of meat daily, which includes venison, beef, and whole rabbits.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There’s an art gallery, the Birds of Prey Center, an otter exhibit, and Desertarium, which features turtles, snakes, lizards, frogs, and more.
    Lauren Jones, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2025
  • And all of a sudden, an otter comes right up to the glass and begins interacting with them, soon joined by a second otter.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While intentionally bred to be independent hunters of badgers, dachshunds can be brave, yet rash and stubborn.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Those who are lucky may notice foxes, badgers, otters or deer along the route.
    Jeanine Barone, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • See it In Thanh Hoa, Vietnam, fishers caught four crab-eating frogs, Fejervarya moodiei, marking the first record of this species in the province.
    Real-Time News team, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Farmers, fishers, and field workers feel, see and live with the most severe impacts.
    Felipe Arango, Sourcing Journal, 26 Sep. 2025

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“Muskrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muskrat. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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