rabbit

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Recent Examples of rabbit Birds, chipmunks, snakes, rabbits—cats can and will kill animals up to three times their size. Rebecca Van Laer september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025 Sometimes a team can have the perfect call for the right situation on defense, but that doesn’t guarantee a talented player won’t pull a rabbit out of his helmet. Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025 Install rabbit and deer guards around young trees and shrubs. Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2025 Make sure to stop at the Wool Tent for raw, washed and ready to spin fleece from sheep, alpacas, goats, llamas and even rabbits. Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rabbit
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rabbit
Noun
  • Animals that typically carry rabies are bats, raccoons, skunks, and foxes.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Like a faulty fire hydrant, or a vacuum cleaner whizzing up and down with the uncontrollable hysteria of a feral raccoon, our directive was to suck up as many clicks as possible through every angle imaginable.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Hummingbirds have long beaks for sucking nectar from flowers, polar bears have thick skin and fur to keep them warm from the Arctic tundra and beavers have big, wide tails to propel them through the water.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The name comes from Native American and early Colonial traditions, when beavers are most active in building their dams and lodges ahead of winter.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Animals that typically carry rabies are bats, raccoons, skunks, and foxes.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • People across continents might link rainbows with snakes, or see rabbits on the moon, or cast foxes, jackals, and coyotes as tricksters.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 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
  • Now native Spartina grasses have returned, as have muskrats and threatened bird species.
    Kyra Morris, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Its voraciousness has threatened native populations of minks, muskrats, and river otters.
    Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In another video on Kingston's account, Chelsea shared seven facts about the Persian chinchilla breed.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Prime Video released the final season trailer for its sci-fi dramedy Tuesday, and while things still remain up in the air for Nate in Lakeview, fear not — a life-coach chinchilla is here to save the day!
    Claire Franken, TVLine, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Originally bred in Germany to hunt badgers, these small canines are energetic, bold and stubborn.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Those who are lucky may notice foxes, badgers, otters or deer along the route.
    Jeanine Barone, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As the two boys leaned over the dock to watch, Lee threw his arm down into the water and the otter jumped up and bit his hand.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • 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

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“Rabbit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rabbit. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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