beaver
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There was: the Thirsty Beaver on Germantown Road, a biker bar with a stuffed beaver stationed at the front door.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
We wrote here last month about the trademark lawsuits being filed by the rest-stop chain Buc-ee’s as it expands in the U.S., alleging that other companies’ mascots infringe on its trademarked beaver character.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
"One beaver wetland won't solve all of our drought problems," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Soccer fans visiting a very large gas station for the first time… carry-on BBQ sandwiches & beaver nuggets?
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
The Chief had hold of the sleeve of her beaver coat, but she got away from him.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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By the time the beavers were trapped and their dams dismantled, a few dozen acres of trees were dead and too dangerous to remove.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Flooding two years ago during Hurricane Helene swept beavers inland from the Ogeechee River.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
And in its forests and on its grasslands, tule elk and mule deer graze, while bobcats and coyotes hunt for rabbits and mountain beavers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Puttock said when he started researching beavers a decade ago he was not thinking about wildfires but flood management.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Roz roamed across the island and checked in with the beavers and the bears and all the friends she’d missed.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
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If Musk had quietly beavered away on something that might have helped, that would have been one thing, but that isn’t Musk’s style – he happily admits to his own arrogance.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2018
For two months, they beavered away at the problem.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2014
There were issues of "privacy" and "commercial confidentiality" here apparently, as big hackers beavered away untouched.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2013
"They have beavered away trying this and trying that and the formulations have changed over the last 50 years, but not radically."
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2011
He is a most industrious small chopper, and the other day gnawed down, or as the children call it, "beavered" down, a misshapen tulip tree, which was about fifty feet high.
From Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt
I didn’t set out to leverage AI, beavering away in the background while I sleep, to set my priorities every morning, and even help me regulate my physical and mental health.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Adam Le Doux, the creator of the game-making software, was working as a programmer at Microsoft while beavering away on creative projects in his spare time.
From The Verge ● Mar. 7, 2022
After the success of Latin Grammy-nominated single Otro Trago, be sure that he’s beavering away on the song of the summer.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2019
“What I remember is this rivetingly beautiful dark-haired creature beavering away in her cubbyhole,” said Barbara Jakobson, a longtime Museum of Modern Art trustee.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2019
"Tain t as bad as beavering," answered Sam.
From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Ernest Thompson Seton
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