fur
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Keeping your fur baby healthy can take a big bite out of your budget.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The newsletter and article incorrectly said Macy’s sold real fur.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Perhaps it’s being pet in a certain way, combing their fur with a brush or letting them chase a feather.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Authorities suspect the primates, known for their shaggy red fur, were trafficked into India, sparking a criminal investigation.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
It was of fur, with a blue satin ribbon for under the chin.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Shopkeepers at the boutique frantically hid their furs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Staff started out by wearing bear masks and animal furs, then crawling into the enclosure to spoon-feed the cubs formula.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
But some analysts believe that her fashion - leathers, furs, and a "rooster" hairstyle - are also signs that she is being groomed to lead the country.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
With stiff shirt collars worn as necklaces by women -- paired with plunging necklines -- and oversized furs for men, Chiuri also hoped to "go beyond the distinction between women's and men's wardrobes".
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
They bring us deerskins and bear furs to keep us warm.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
Known as the Blue Bear Beast Bloodlust Incarnate, the ferocious, turquoise-colored furred monster has claws and bites.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
The former is a low-mounding perennial with furred purple blooms on short stems in spring, while the latter is a deciduous woody vine that produces nodding, deep yellow flowers in late summer.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2022
The others had eggs but no fish, a fish carcass furred white with bacteria or nothing at all.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
His new, weird, soft sponginess is unsettling at best, and though his furred friends are a little less off-putting, it’s not by much.
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2021
By following their runways she found seven nests and caught eighty furred young.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
The shocking thing is that the flue gases had escaped from the chimney and could have set the wood framing near the chimney and the wood furring strips on fire.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2021
If flue gases had escaped from the chimney, they could have set the wood framing near the chimney and the wood furring strips on fire.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2021
Made of rare-earth magnets encased in wood, the holder looks almost like a well-sanded and stained furring strip.
From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2019
Bad cholesterol is the villain in heart world - it leads to blood vessels furring up, becoming easy to block which fatally starves the heart or brain of oxygen.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2017
The pine paneling was gone from the walls leaving just the furring strips.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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