as in cougar
a large tawny cat of the wild
the panther is surprisingly difficult to spot
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Recent Examples of panther
Already, 20 to 30 of Florida’s endangered panthers, which number roughly 200 adults, are killed by cars each year.
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Elise Bennett, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2025
More on the legend from Bud: Fact check: Nobody ever actually saw a panther.
—Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 July 2025
Ancestors and descendants dance at the perimeter of Harjo’s poems, and her definition of relative is wide enough to hold every living thing—panthers, raccoons, tobacco plants.
—The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 23 July 2025
The country proves to be an African Shangri-La, where science and spirituality comfortably coexist, with T’Challa the heir to powers of superhuman strength and agility conferred by his ancestral connection to Bast, the powerful panther god.
—Ekow Eshun
july 11, Literary Hub, 11 July 2025
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Elise Bennett, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2025
More on the legend from Bud: Fact check: Nobody ever actually saw a panther.
—Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 July 2025
Ancestors and descendants dance at the perimeter of Harjo’s poems, and her definition of relative is wide enough to hold every living thing—panthers, raccoons, tobacco plants.
—The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 23 July 2025
The country proves to be an African Shangri-La, where science and spirituality comfortably coexist, with T’Challa the heir to powers of superhuman strength and agility conferred by his ancestral connection to Bast, the powerful panther god.
—Ekow Eshun
july 11, Literary Hub, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for panther
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There were also concerns about the noticeable mountain lion population in and around the Wood River Valley, something officers attributed to the area's ample deer and elk population, which grants cougars living there a reliable all-year-round food source.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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Male cougars can weigh up to 150 pounds, while female cougars can weigh between 75 and 100 pounds.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
11 Aug. 2025
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At the outset of this meditative novel, a pair of out-of-work twins who are haunted by their parents’ histories as thieves and killers decide to go on a hunt for a puma that is terrorizing farmers and livestock in the highlands of Tasmania.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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This broad public support for pumas could spur state wildlife agencies to explore the idea of restoring pumas in states along the East Coast where the animals were driven out decades ago by settlers, ranchers, farmers and government officials.—
Noël Fletcher,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Panther.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panther. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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