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[deer] / dɪər /


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The researchers think some of the site's more unusual plants may have arrived without human assistance, possibly carried or dispersed by wildlife such as deer.

From Science Daily Aug. 23, 2026

Ungulates are hoofed mammals, although many extinct South American forms looked very different from familiar animals such as horses and deer.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

Red and fallow deer eat grasses, leaves and shoots of trees, as well as acorns, sweet chestnuts and horse chestnuts.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Visitors to London's Royal Parks are being reminded that it is illegal , externalto feed the wild deer after a man was injured by a stag that approached his picnic group.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Ray stops at a tree, bare in the back from deer rub, and sniffs, and sniffs, and sniffs.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

He asked, “Are there dead deers in mythology that are significant?”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

“There are deers behind the El Cariso Park and the L.A. Mission College, Lopez Dam and near another county dam higher up on the Pacoima River wash,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2024

“The people we put in the game, they’re never scared. There’s no deers in the headlights,” Wood said.

From Washington Post Apr. 25, 2022

“There were years when we actually had so many deers donated that we ran out of money,” said Bud Thomas, the group’s longtime treasurer.

From New York Times Nov. 24, 2021

Mr. Polite said I throwed up so plentiful that didn’t no deers nor rabbits die in the woods for five years after.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis




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