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[foks] / fɒks /












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To investigate how cannabinoids influence fear and anxiety, researchers exposed mice to a threatening smell derived from fox urine.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Among the highest-priced lots were paintings featuring The Clangers and Noggin the Nog, while a signed Basil Brush artwork, showing the cheerful fox chatting to a mole, sold for £6,000.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Yet the ancient Greek poet Archilochus, who gave us the parable of the fox and the hedgehog, suggests that the hedgehog’s one big trick may defeat all the tricks the fox can try.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Having the event in November will allow people to go all-out, said his performance partner Krizel Guiral, or "Zhel", dressed as Youko Kurama, the red-headed fox demon from the same Japanese manga and anime classic.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

“It is a much older saying than those of Agatha Swanburne. It may even be older than the pithy wisdom of Cicero. It goes like this: ‘Don’t set a fox to guard the henhouse.’”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

As for the deer carcasses, some of the meat will feed endangered California condors, bald eagles and foxes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

Scavenger animals such as possums, red foxes and crows can be exposed to the virus while devouring the carcasses of infected birds.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

Leaving a trail of destruction in their wake are introduced pests: fire ants, cane toads, rabbits, foxes, feral cats.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Looking out their back windows, they can see foxes, deer and possums in neighboring woodlands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

We were pursued on every shore, hunted like foxes, coursed like hares.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

All that remained of those days, apart from the stories, were these exotic bottles, their labels brittle and foxed.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2017

For all those millions of people who were foxed and bamboozled at every turn by the ticketing lottery, following the games via these streams is the closest thing there is to actually being there.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2012

What we do see is that the pages are extensively foxed, a term that refers to ugly spotting.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2011

Then Lionel Messi won the ball, foxed three opponents and passed.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2011

I wonder what he had in mind for you to do with it; as you couldn’t read it, I’m foxed as to what he was a thinking.”

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

In most cases, the originals were replaced with high-quality copies that mimicked even their foxing — a sign of a sophisticated operation.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2024

If a fox isn’t foxing, is she even a fox?

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2020

In the end, it turned out that McAleer had been foxing all along.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 4, 2017

While the blues lurk everywhere in Raitt’s work, she—like George—avoids taking long solos, instead foxing her slide work in and around and behind her vocals.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 9, 2016

The cream of the joke," he explained, when he recovered his powers of speech, "was that neither Winter nor Sutgrove had the slightest idea that I was foxing.

From The Motor Pirate by G. Sidney Paternoster


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