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When they can’t, they close the door to a small, stuffy office to eat their lunch — the same office where the rat has been hiding for three weeks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

This is a franchise that once saw its mascot give fans the finger and had two teammates blame a heated argument on a disagreement over the difference between a rat and a raccoon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

They used the rat tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta, a non-pathogenic species commonly used to study interactions among parasites, gut microorganisms, and the immune system because of its known anti-inflammatory properties.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

More and more young people talk about feeling burnt out, question the point of staying in the rat race and, in some cases, feel bruised by their parents' tough love.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

The garbage shuddered and gave way to a dingy white rat: sharp red eyes, a pink tail, back paw missing two toes.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

In rats, for example, excess histidine can be converted into histamine, which activates brain receptors involved in controlling food intake.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

Like rats in a Skinner box being conditioned to get food or stop pain, AI models hill-climb in a process similar to reinforcement learning, tweaking their parameters based on feedback.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

People in the community have also reported seeing large rats, and they say traps placed along sidewalks aren't big enough to hold them.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Now, a burnt-out putrid warehouse that has devastated businesses and forced residents to remain inside their homes during a sweltering summer, as flies and giant rats infest the neighborhood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

I thought about rats and real men and Number One and angels and fame and first and last and love and nature’s way.

From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli

As a young woman in the 1920s, she disguised herself as a man and worked on a local archaeological dig at the Roman Villa Casale until she was ratted out and sent packing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

“She ratted me out! Yes, I have the teapot, which I realize is quite the memento,” says Krasinski, writing while in production on an upcoming project.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2025

Bulger, who ran the largely Irish mob in Boston in the 1970s and ’80s, served as an FBI informant who ratted on his gang’s main rival, according to the bureau.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2022

“Tell me how I ratted, came home to a big bag,” he shrieks.

From New York Times ● May 20, 2020

Rumors had it that someone had ratted them out, and Takumi seemed intent on finding out who—intent enough, anyway, to shout about it with his mouth jam-packed with bufriedo.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

And who wouldn’t have to modify their behavior if they thought Rover was ratting them out to his pals down at Paws & Claws?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

"I don't know how I feel about the culture of ratting out your neighbours," Ms Morfopoulos said.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2023

"But he could be ratting out Eastman and Powell, for example, in order to make a deal."

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2023

He prided himself on not ratting out his Watergate co-conspirators and argued that if everyone had just shut up about it Nixon would not have been deposed.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2021

First, the regular student code about not ratting people out—that didn’t apply at the Academy.

From "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman