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critter

noun

ˈkri-tər

as in animal

one of the lower animals as distinguished from human beings she's so fond of every kind of critter that she ought to be a veterinarian

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Recent Examples on the Web Collectors have been finding the remains of these critters in the Mazon Creek fossil beds for more than a century. —

Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 14 July 2024 Researchers found that some mouse-sized critters developed at a snail’s pace compared to their modern descendants. —

Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 26 July 2024 Then, in the 1990s and 2000s, new and inexpensive technologies let researchers scoop up a bucket of seawater and sequence the DNA of all critters living there. —

Quanta Magazine, 17 July 2024 Typically, gray whales feed only in Arctic and sub-Arctic waters during the summer months, when the cold seafloor is filled with life and millions, if not billions, of small shrimp-like critters that the whales scoop up in their enormous jaws. —

Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for critter

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