badger

Tejon means “badger” in Spanish, and all it took was some Spaniard on an 1806 expedition happening upon a dead badger there for the name to stick.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

When asked how she would feel if he were replaced by a badger, she said: "Well, lucky badger or lucky grandpapa", adding that a suitable substitute should be a very brave and courageous animal.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

"He deserves better than being replaced by a badger," he said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026

Ian called badger culling "a national disgrace" and said: "I would swap this award immediately for the government to rescind all existing badger culling licenses."

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2025

The badger before Clare was not a figure made of blood and bone, but the shimmering apparition of one.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

I took a mat next to the American black bears and American badgers, only slightly jealous that the mats next to the large-scale walrus diorama were taken.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

The lakes region Mr. Hoffman describes as “magnetic and mercurial” is home to bears, wolves, badgers, otters and a surprising variety of other creatures, yet their ways of life are being threatened.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Locals have claimed that rare albino deer, great crested newts and badgers all roamed the field prior to it being built on.

From BBC ● May 9, 2026

The land abutting the Pinto Mountains Wilderness is also home to badgers, bighorn sheep and Mojave fringe-toed lizards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

He waited for an opportunity, when the talk was going again, and Tom was telling an absurd story about badgers and their queer ways — then he slipped the Ring on.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Because that’s what gets done to the biggest guys—they are badgered, bullied, and banged around, with the hope the referees ignore a lot of the contact, because the big guy just is too big.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Later headlines would say that Solanas believed Warhol “controlled her life” and that he had “legal claim” over her self-published writing, which she frequently badgered him to read.

From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026

For months, Meta’s algorithm badgered me to buy a little piece of plastic mounted on a magnet.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025

He badgered Wisconsin with a barrage of floaters and driving layups.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2025

In 1809 Indiana’s territorial governor, William Henry Harrison, badgered and bribed a few destitute Delaware, Miami, and Potawatomi individuals to sign the Treaty of Fort Wayne.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

My agents always call me “Dr. No” because I know no matter what, even if I’m not consciously aware of it, it’s there just badgering me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Costco raised its fees in 2024 — the first such increase in seven years — after months of badgering from Wall Street.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 2026

After successfully badgering his dad to take him to a local club to play on full-size tables at the age of eight, the young Hunter made the leap from table top snooker with aplomb.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026

And then there are the bit players they run into throughout who, in Mr. Panahi’s acidic vision of a desperate society, tend to end interactions by badgering for a tip.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

He’d been badgering me since then to get a sergeant upstairs to speak with him.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover