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raccoon

noun

variants also racoon

Definition of raccoon

as in rabbit

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Recent Examples of raccoon Jimothy The viral raccoon on everybody's mind this year is also about to become one of the best costumes of the season! — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026 One early Saturday morning in June of 2025, a pair of very small raccoon cubs, about six weeks old, were strolling around the yard, exploring their world. — Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026 Approximately 600,000 baits will be dropped this year in an effort to prevent the raccoon rabies epizootic (an epidemic found in animals) from moving west from the Appalachian Mountains. — Eva Flowe october 7, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2026 The massive aerial operation is part of an annual operation to spread rabies vaccination baits targeting raccoons and other wildlife in the state. — Dan Raby, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for raccoon

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Noun

Zembower also questioned the ban on the sale of rabbits and whether the bans would eventually be proposed for other animals, including turtles and snakes.

— Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2026
If this is really a hint, Gandalf can’t figure it out and leaves to fetch the rabbit Tom Bombadil has requested.

— Keith Phipps, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of rabbit

Noun

Per TimeandDate, the beaver moon gets its name from the time of year when beavers traditionally become busy preparing their dams and lodges for winter.

— Michael d'Estries, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2026
The preferred method of managing beaver is not to hunt or trap them.

— Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of beaver

Noun

Open meadows connect with forest through long hedgerows, providing food and shelter for wildlife including beavers, otters, opossums, muskrats and numerous resident and migratory birds, according to ESLC.

— Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2026
It is commonly spread through tick bites and deer flies that have fed on infected animals, such as wild rabbits, hares, muskrats and rodents.

— Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of muskrat

Noun

The report raised alarm because mink is a species that could give the virus opportunities to mutate to better spread among humans.

— Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 2 Nov. 2026
Flu experts were unequivocal that the government should have ordered the farm to cull its mink, as other countries have done.

— Nat Lash, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of mink

Noun

Markenscoff-Papadimitriou’s team wanted to know what was happening to the foxes’ brains.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2026
Connie, whose cake is like glue inside, and Gary are once again at the bottom, with Gabe’s dynamite dinosaur and Tom’s foxy fox placing them at the top.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of fox

Noun

On previous survey nights that lasted until sunrise, the researchers have seen mule deer, bobcats, badgers and foxes prowling in the cover of the dark.

— Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Smith would later learn that Cello had made his way into a badger’s den — called a sett — and became lost in the underground network of tunnels.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of badger

Noun

The new policy prohibits fur from animals killed specifically for their pelts, including mink, fox, rabbit, chinchilla and coyote.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026
Queen Bey’s feminism would mature — on the occasion of her 25th birthday, specifics were mostly limited to paying one’s own way and doing one’s best to keep rivals out of chinchilla coats.

— SPIN Staff, SPIN, 4 July 2026

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