furry
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UK species are adapted to our historically cooler climate - with fat, furry bodies that help them retain heat and powerful flight muscles that warm them as they fly.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
A furry AI pet batted its eyelashes at cooing onlookers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
As they acclimate to rural life, they’re embraced by a community that takes care of each other and the world around them, including the kind, furry giant who Mei names Totoro.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
The two-year-old furry critter, described by keepers as extremely shy, was being kept in the hospital for diagnostic testing, it said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
The real Fig by my side flipped over, exposing his white, furry belly with a whimpering grunt.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
That comes from a debate in the Texas state legislature that was supposedly about "furries," a subculture of people who dress up as anthropomorphic animal characters.
From Salon ● May 12, 2025
The furry community, or "fandom", gained popularity with the growth of the internet and it is estimated that there are now hundreds of thousand of furries worldwide.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025
There wasn’t a big crossover between typical NFL fans and furries.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2023
After all, you can also find newly stoked disputes about furries and schools in the U.K.,
From Slate ● May 6, 2022
A floor speech from Nebraska State Senator Bruce Bostelman that "is about something called furries."
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2022
Charli XCX might be hoping the release of her new album sets off another Brat summer, but many believe the season has already been claimed by a furrier force - Jimothy.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Most fashion names who show at Milan Fashion Week have already gone fur-free, including the Armani Group, Dolce & Gabbana and Prada, but a major holdout has been Fendi, which began as a furrier.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
On Nov. 8, 1938, a Gestapo neighbor stopped Jules Schulback, a young Jewish furrier in Berlin.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2023
His father, Martin, a Romanian immigrant, was a furrier and hotelier.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2022
He was now a wealthy furrier and a thoroughly nonobservant Jew.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
Last week, a young wolf burrowed under a fence at his zoo in the South Korean city of Daejeon and escaped - becoming the country's newest, furriest fugitive.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
In our conversation, we also discussed the drama's interpretation of home cooking as seen on TV, got the inside scoop on the show's furriest secret ingredient and much more.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2023
Last year the group distributed traps to schoolchildren and gave out prizes for the most rats caught, the biggest rat, the one with the biggest teeth and the furriest coat.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2023
“The female was on an egg sac, and the male was the biggest, hairiest, furriest guy you’ve ever seen.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 22, 2014
“Thank you, sir,” said Travis, looking surprised, “but Bunny’s my pet. I can’t sell him. He’s the biggest, furriest rabbit I’ve ever had.”
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
