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Recent Examples of otter
The stomping otters and other curious animals were a bonus.
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Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
The zoo enlisted a professional tracker to help find both otters.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 4 June 2025
These types are symbolized by animals: lion, otter, golden retriever and beaver.
—Nancy Pulciano, Rolling Stone, 23 May 2025
By comparison, bringing a single otter back to the ecosystem can take significant time and investment.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2025
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Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
The zoo enlisted a professional tracker to help find both otters.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 4 June 2025
These types are symbolized by animals: lion, otter, golden retriever and beaver.
—Nancy Pulciano, Rolling Stone, 23 May 2025
By comparison, bringing a single otter back to the ecosystem can take significant time and investment.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for otter
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For the past 20 years, conservationists in Spain worked to rehabilitate their European beaver populations and eventually noticed beavers living closer and closer to the border with Portugal, the organization said.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
13 June 2025
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This led to a chain of cause and effect (a trophic cascade) that affected beavers, birds, and even the flow of the river.—
Nitin Sekar,
ArsTechnica,
5 Apr. 2025
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Artifacts inside the vessel, created by artist and sculptor Bill Mack, included a mink cap owned by the actor and a lock of her hair, all meant to be unearthed on August 5, 2062—the 100th anniversary of Monroe’s tragic death.—
Margaux Anbouba,
Vogue,
21 May 2025
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The developer plans to turn six parcels of rural residential and agricultural land, now owned by a Utah mink farming company, into the residential and commercial development.—
Rose Evans,
Idaho Statesman,
17 May 2025
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Areas with bears and smaller, scavenger animals like racoons, will typically have food lockers.—
Geoffrey Morrison,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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The types of animals vary, but monkeys, skunks, racoons and crocodiles are the most common, the data shows.—
Natalia Jaramillo,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 June 2025
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Visitors can also look for antelope, mule deer, and badgers; harder to spot are coyotes.—
Carrie Dennis,
Travel + Leisure,
14 June 2025
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The camera traps also picked up images of 17 other mammal species, ranging from caracal cats and porcupines to honey badgers and bushpigs, the family said.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
13 May 2025
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Marvel's more impressive big swing was getting audiences to fall in love with a talking raccoon, a tree and their motley crew of space misfits.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
21 June 2025
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But dogs on bear hunts may kill raccoons and foxes and disturb other wildlife, argued Adam Sugalski, executive director of One Protest and its Bear Defenders campaign.—
Zoey Thomas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 June 2025
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One East Hartford man shoots 100 muskrats for some reason.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
14 June 2025
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Painter and Jensen have seen beavers, muskrats, pond turtles, deer and black bears roaming the grounds.—
David Caraccio,
Sacramento Bee,
8 Mar. 2025
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At the same time, marten populations shot up and the researchers began to see their scat in new areas.—
Siddhant Pusdekar,
Journal Sentinel,
5 July 2024
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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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Deer and rabbits typically don’t like the spicy-scented foliage.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
20 June 2025
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Many purported sightings of mountain lions in Oklahoma turn out to be other animals, including bobcats, house cats, dogs, coyotes, foxes, deer and rabbits.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 June 2025
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“Otter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/otter. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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