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beaver

[bee-ver] / ˈbi vər /


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The rest-stop chain is suing rivals over its trademarked beaver.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

In an interview, she noted the beaver and moose in question appear to have coexisted in the convenience-store and gas-station marketplace for at least 35 years, based on trademark records.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

Three beaver kits have been born in a forest as part of a conservation programme.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

Soccer fans visiting a very large gas station for the first time… carry-on BBQ sandwiches & beaver nuggets?

From Salon Jun. 28, 2026

The panthers, elk, and timberwolves were being driven to extinction, the beaver and bear nearly so.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Head of natural environment, Guy Thallon, said reintroducing animals had been "inspiring for the whole Castle Howard team and beyond", with further plans to release beavers in the autumn.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

And in its forests and on its grasslands, tule elk and mule deer graze, while bobcats and coyotes hunt for rabbits and mountain beavers.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

Puttock said when he started researching beavers a decade ago he was not thinking about wildfires but flood management.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

"But overall, as beavers expand in our landscapes, and also as we do other nature-based solutions or wetland creation schemes... it does mean that we are less prone to droughts."

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

But eventually he opened up to the robot, and before long she was waving for the beavers to join them.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

If Musk had quietly beavered away on something that might have helped, that would have been one thing, but that isn’t Musk’s style – he happily admits to his own arrogance.

From The Guardian Jul. 17, 2018

For two months, they beavered away at the problem.

From Slate Jun. 9, 2014

There were issues of "privacy" and "commercial confidentiality" here apparently, as big hackers beavered away untouched.

From The Guardian Jul. 28, 2013

"They have beavered away trying this and trying that and the formulations have changed over the last 50 years, but not radically."

From BBC Apr. 11, 2011

He is a most industrious small chopper, and the other day gnawed down, or as the children call it, "beavered" down, a misshapen tulip tree, which was about fifty feet high.

From Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt

A detective, in the form of a Firmin scholar, is beavering around.

From New York Times May 1, 2023

Adam Le Doux, the creator of the game-making software, was working as a programmer at Microsoft while beavering away on creative projects in his spare time.

From The Verge Mar. 7, 2022

Hence a small team of civil servants is beavering away on a "detailed prospectus" for independence, to give the electorate an "informed choice".

From BBC Sep. 13, 2021

Republicans are beavering away to create something, but it’s a proposal.

From Washington Post Oct. 4, 2017

"Tain t as bad as beavering," answered Sam.

From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Ernest Thompson Seton




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