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raccoon

noun

variants also racoon

Definition of raccoon

as in rabbit

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Recent Examples of raccoon Some people have to remove bird feeders during the summer because of problems with bears, raccoons, and other wild animals. — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 4 July 2026 This enables researchers to track spatial and temporal trends for many Wisconsin species, such as black bears, bobcats, coyotes, opossum and raccoons. — Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 One Maryland family of five was left paying $13,000 out of pocket after their dogs encountered a rabid raccoon, 12 on Your Side reports. — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026 Wayne County prosecutors allege that on June 17, Montgomery tortured and burned a raccoon at a home in the 12000 block of Washburn Street in Detroit and posted a video on social media of the animal being burned alive. — Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 22 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for raccoon

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Noun

Plants tolerate a range of soils and are unbothered by rabbits or deer.

— Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 3 July 2026
There’s a bug-eyed rabbit, a blue donkey and several variations of what appear to be skulls.

— Ryan Steven Green, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026

Definition of rabbit

Noun

There’s the yellow, blue-nosed beaver Norb (Nick Bakay) — witty, sophisticated, sarcastic, and opinionated.

— Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 20 June 2026
In recent years, however, beaver reintroductions have started to become more popular in the country because these semi-aquatic rodents are amazing natural engineers.

— Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 18 June 2026

Definition of beaver

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Arthur Labellman, 81, ran the shop started by his grandfather in 1919 for more than 50 years, selling mink coats and other products at the height of downtown’s retail era.

— Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2026
Sonoma County Animal Services said its officers responded to the resident's call and discovered that the otter was actually a tiny baby American mink.

— Kassia Bonesteel, CBS News, 1 July 2026

Definition of mink

Noun

Sonoma County Animal Services said its officers responded to the resident's call and discovered that the otter was actually a tiny baby American mink.

— Kassia Bonesteel, CBS News, 1 July 2026
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, 14 June 2026

Definition of otter

Noun

Now, a scenic oceanfront property with public hiking trails, bobcats, foxes and sweeping views of the San Mateo coast, Farallon Islands and the Marin Headlands could become part of the national park system.

— Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 8 July 2026
And the hare did not have that specific goal before the fox appeared.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 8 July 2026

Definition of fox

Noun

Both minks and otters are mustelids, a family of carnivores that also includes badgers, weasels, and wolverines.

— Kassia Bonesteel, CBS News, 1 July 2026
Over the next several decades, a roll call of Pennsylvania’s native animals would be extirpated, including mountain lions, wolves, wolverines, badgers, pine marten, and fisher cats; whitetail deer were nearly wiped out of the state, as were black bears and turkeys.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026

Definition of badger

Noun

Other small mammals like ferrets, degus, sugar gliders, chinchillas, gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs, rats and mice are all allowed as pets.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2026
What's more, the European Commission is planning to announce a decision on banning the holding and killing of mink, foxes, raccoon, dogs and chinchilla, and marketing of fur products from those animals, according to its website.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026

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