fawn
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They write because they want others to fawn over the content.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Either way, the coyotes found a ready food source in the fawn of mule deer, which themselves have a controversial history on the island.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025
One of his favorite moves is to humiliate people who are dumb enough to fawn over him.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2025
The 18 month-old fawn coloured XL bully is in an enclosed field Danielle has hired for his use near their South Tyneside home.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2024
Peter squatted back down, and the closest one, a doe with a spindly spotted fawn beside her, turned her head to look directly at him.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
In recent days, AFP journalists have seen roe deer and fawns looking disorientated in the middle of scorched and barren woodland.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Females usually give birth to one to two fawns in early summer and nurse them for two or so months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2025
“Bears, coyotes and bobcats may take fawns, but humans are by and large the only predators of deer.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2021
Prepare to suppress your gag reflex while a nation fawns yet again over the 44-year-old Brady’s apparent immortality and Belichick’s tactical brilliance.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
There had been no fresh meat in the little house since spring, but now the fawns were grown up, and Pa would go hunting again.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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