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Recent Examples of otter
The feces revealed that crabs and finfish were the staples of otter diets, making up 93 percent of all prey items based on the DNA analysis.
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Laura Baisas Aug 14, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2025
Yeah, Kelce likes otter videos.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 14 Aug. 2025
Having children can be such a basically animal experience that to read about it as performed by otter, whale, or even bird all seems relevant.
—Ellyn Gaydos
august 11, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
An otter captured in a box also plays a key role in the film.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Laura Baisas Aug 14, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2025
Yeah, Kelce likes otter videos.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 14 Aug. 2025
Having children can be such a basically animal experience that to read about it as performed by otter, whale, or even bird all seems relevant.
—Ellyn Gaydos
august 11, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
An otter captured in a box also plays a key role in the film.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for otter
Noun
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Around that same time, English merchants began offering Caribbean rum to the Shawnee and other Native groups as part of the trade in deerskins and beaver pelts.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Aug. 2025
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Similarly, beaver populations dramatically declined in much of the park by the mid-20th century due to trapping.—
Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
29 Aug. 2025
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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
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On the smaller side, species like the river otter and mink can be found feasting on fish by the water’s edge, while lucky visitors may catch a glimpse of a wolverine roaming the tundra—and these are far from the only predators that call Katmai home.—
Jared Ranahan,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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
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Those who are lucky may notice foxes, badgers, otters or deer along the route.—
Jeanine Barone,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Have fun sticking it to the man—or the raccoon, as the case may be.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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Both viruses are highly contagious and often fatal to mammals, such as dogs and raccoons, according to information from the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine and the American Veterinary Medical Association.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Now native Spartina grasses have returned, as have muskrats and threatened bird species.—
Kyra Morris,
The Atlantic,
22 Aug. 2025
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Its voraciousness has threatened native populations of minks, muskrats, and river otters.—
Nathaniel Rich,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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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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Emails multiplying like rabbits.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
11 Sep. 2025
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Some places also have rabbits, reptiles and other animals looking for home.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
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The short season, when thousands of fishers and crew live on Bristol Bay, home of the world’s largest sockeye population, for about six short weeks, others processing on land, provides the global supply of sockeye salmon for the entire year to come.—
Andrew Watman,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Screenshots from a video a fisher captured of a bald eagle soaring through the sky and snagging a fish out of a lake in Canada.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Otter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/otter. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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