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shrew

[shroo] / ʃru /


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Sometimes he portrays her as a shrew, whining last year about how he’d be “in trouble” if he forgot to mention their anniversary during a speech.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

Purgatorius, a small mammal about the size of a shrew, appears in the fossil record shortly after the dinosaurs went extinct around 65.9 million years ago.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 2026

Lyell shrew was known to reside in just a few locations in the central Sierra Nevada near Mt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2025

They included a horseshoe bat called Rhinolophus mabuensis and a dwarf musk shrew which scientists are still in the process of naming and describing.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2024

The heart of a shrew can fit on your thumbnail.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti




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