variants
also racoon
as in rabbit
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Recent Examples of raccoon
An alert bystander who noticed a raccoon with its head stuck in a storm drain grate later assisted police with its rescue using two laundry pods, Massachusetts cops reported.
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Don Sweeney, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2025
Help keep predators like cats and raccoons away by adding a metal baffle or predator guard under the house.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 Apr. 2025
Avoid keeping water and food bowls outside to limit possible contamination
Teach kids not to touch any wildlife
Arapahoe County officials also said in late February that the county was seeing an outbreak of raccoons suffering from canine distemper.
—Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2025
While this method worked, the raccoon went slower than the first one.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
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Don Sweeney, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2025
Help keep predators like cats and raccoons away by adding a metal baffle or predator guard under the house.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 Apr. 2025
Avoid keeping water and food bowls outside to limit possible contamination
Teach kids not to touch any wildlife
Arapahoe County officials also said in late February that the county was seeing an outbreak of raccoons suffering from canine distemper.
—Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2025
While this method worked, the raccoon went slower than the first one.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for raccoon
Noun
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The food, by Kyiv chef Kateryna Tkachuk, is both deeply regional and softly modern: rabbit skewers grilled over grapevines; subtly-spiced tomatoes that even now, writing this, make my mouth water; a creme brûlée packed with varenyk.—
Lela London,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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Cottontail rabbits eat the leaves and stems of some violet species.—
Sheryl De Vore,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Cleanup efforts have paid off, and the park’s 25 river miles now allure animals like herons and beavers.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Apr. 2025
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The challenge is to stop thinking like Davids and start thinking like beavers.—
Scott Hutcheson,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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Painter and Jensen have seen beavers, muskrats, pond turtles, deer and black bears roaming the grounds.—
David Caraccio,
Sacramento Bee,
8 Mar. 2025
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Even in her early twenties, Long held staunch opinions on stocking colors and children’s frocks, Christmas cards and muskrat coats.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2025
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Adding social services, mental health services and job training would go a long way toward helping far more people than banning mink coats.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Mar. 2025
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Out stepped the Queen of Soul in a full-length mink coat.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
5 Mar. 2025
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Other wildlife previously captured on the show, which features no narration or music, just nature, includes bears, reindeer, birds of prey, and otters.—
Kirsty Hatcher,
People.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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Then the otter appears in different environments with different styles of background.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Back in a fox, the worms attach to the intestines and grow into adults.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
23 Apr. 2025
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One credits The Canterbury Tales, in which Chaucer wrote about a rooster who was tricked by a fox on the 32nd of March.—
Jesse David Fox,
Vulture,
1 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The next few weeks may be a crucial test of the honey badgers’ resilience.—
Nadeen Ebrahim,
CNN Money,
6 Apr. 2025
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This previous label, which debuted on the 2010 vintages, featured Hamel Family Wines in cursive and an image of a badger.—
Jeanette Hurt,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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Offstage, Summer lives in the Dallas Fort Worth area, sharing her home with her supportive husband, their charming daughter, her quirky brother, and her canine companions, Cricket, Loki, Adie and chinchilla, Princess Fluffy Pants.—
Hilary Tetenbaum,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2025
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Lucas retains his hold on the lucrative smack market largely because of his ability to not attract attention; his eventual downfall is hastened by the regrettable decision to stand out in a crowd for once and rock a chinchilla fur coat and matching hat at a prizefight.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
1 Dec. 2024
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“Raccoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raccoon. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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