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squirrel

[skwur-uhl, skwuhr-, skwir-uhl] / ˈskwɜr əl, ˈskwʌr-, ˈskwɪr əl /


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One dead squirrel has been recovered and it is being tested in Edinburgh to establish if it was a case of squirrelpox - a disease carried by greys but deadly to reds.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

"Jian and the other microraptors probably weren't capable of true, powered flight, but they could probably glide like a flying squirrel," says O'Connor.

From Science Daily Jun. 23, 2026

During the game, he stays calm while a squirrel approaches him.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

JC: I regret to inform you that your squirrel obviously hadn’t heard about the sky-high prices at this World Cup.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 2026

The geese talked about Chitchat the squirrel, and the Beaver family, and the other animals on the island.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

Allan Johnstone, from the Tweeddale Red Squirrel Network, said it was a "terrible disease" which had similar effects on squirrels to myxomatosis in rabbits.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

Observe: There are no plants building cathedrals, squirrels gazing at the stars or two AI models on a date night looking into each other’s eyes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

On top of that, squirrels and mice have damaged the insulation.

From MarketWatch Jun. 9, 2026

They are slow-growing and take 50 to 70 years to start producing seeds, which are dispersed primarily by ground squirrels and wood rats who don’t travel far from their burrows.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

A breeze, a squirrel, a fox, a grouse with chicks, a wolf, a moose, another squirrel, dozens of squirrels, a marten, a porcupine, several bears, more moose, once a wolverine...always something.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

Andrzejewski’s company now has 30 boxes of pennies squirreled away.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 5, 2025

"I haven't been on wages for the past two weeks. I'm now dipping into savings, money that I've squirreled away for retirement, with no insight into exactly when this will be over."

From BBC Sep. 28, 2025

It was from frankly upsetting circumstances, so I’ve squirreled it away in some high-yield savings accounts and continued to live comfortably off my regular income.

From Slate Apr. 3, 2024

Almost all artifacts of film history are squirreled away in studios’ vaults, where they’ve been subject to the vicissitudes of corporate accounting and the ebb and flow of mergers and acquisitions.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2023

Jessie always had money squirreled away in her lock box.

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies

"He's tucked away in the roof which is exactly the reason really. Mary wasn't meant to have the body so obviously squirrelled him away up in the attic."

From BBC Aug. 17, 2024

During the late 2000s, when Pliny the Younger became the most sought-after ale in North America, Brouwer’s had kegs of the triple IPA squirrelled away.

From Seattle Times May 28, 2024

Given the lax-to-nonexistent policing in Ottawa, it’s impossible to know what else could be squirrelled away in the convoy’s warren of vehicles, tents, and bases.

From Slate Feb. 17, 2022

Was he surprised by the quality of the shots people had squirrelled away?

From The Guardian Nov. 19, 2019

They wanted to show Greenberg and Margit Erb, the director of the Saul Leiter Foundation, what Ennis had squirrelled away in a drawer.

From The New Yorker Mar. 27, 2017

But, mindful of fluctuating costs, they have also been taking steps to reduce their fuel consumption, while "squirreling away that extra little bit of cash".

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

You have to choose — there’s no squirreling out of it.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 1, 2026

Officials have been squirreling away reserves in anticipation of the contract, though they’re unlikely to cover the full cost.

From Seattle Times Apr. 29, 2024

“I just worry about the undisclosed kind of squirreling money away,” Rossman said.

From Washington Post Feb. 10, 2023

“And Uncle Woody was squirreling away all the squirrel books he could!”

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

He still rereads his manuscripts from the beginning each day—an increasing burden, as each book goes on—stripping away what’s superfluous and squirrelling new ideas into the gaps.

From The New Yorker Dec. 9, 2019

In early 2016 some analysts fretted that consumers were squirrelling away the money they were saving on cheap petrol, and so denying the economy a needed fillip.

From Economist Dec. 14, 2017

Frances Smith said: "We have support from people on all sides – it's not just bookshops, it's also other independent retailers who are struggling, while these multinational companies are squirrelling away money."

From The Guardian Jul. 2, 2013

If they had fled after squirrelling away millions, why was there no sign of largesse?

From The Guardian Jun. 22, 2013

And Switzerland's banking privacy is under threat from a long-running dispute with the US, which takes a dim view of its wealthier citizens squirrelling away funds in Swiss banks to avoid tax.

From The Guardian Apr. 9, 2011




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