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squirrel

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


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The squirrel monkey, which relies strongly on vision, has a brain dominated by the neocortex.

From Science Daily Aug. 31, 2026

The squirrel escaped by climbing higher, leaving the leopard clinging on before it eventually made an awkward retreat.

From BBC Aug. 25, 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

He watched a squirrel climb the side of a tree trunk.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

Several squirrels have frequented the ballpark during Tigers games over the years.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

A spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, said the government was protecting endangered red squirrels by tackling the threat of non-native grey squirrels.

From BBC Jun. 25, 2026

Tests are being carried out to try to establish the cause of sickness in a number of red squirrels that have been spotted in the Scottish Borders.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

Everyone but the neighborhood squirrels seems to have an opinion about how they should develop talent and play.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

“Because they’d have squirrels in them,” said Kyle, finally catching on.

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

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

"I just feel like right now, we need that money squirrelled away in a safe spot," he said.

From BBC Mar. 18, 2025

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

For the City’s most ambitious financiers, this was tantalising: there was all this money squirrelled away, doing nothing much, and it was exactly what they needed in their quest to start selling bonds again.

From The Guardian Sep. 7, 2018

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

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

From Washington Post Feb. 10, 2023

Mary Anna Ball, 25, a ballerina and research analyst in West Virginia, usually starts squirreling away Christmas gifts in July but this year wants to give gifts that will help her family experience the world.

From New York Times Nov. 23, 2022

“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

There’s no heavy murk or gothic doom, just that gorgeous, squirrelling synth that’s sad and sweet, vulnerable and lost.

From The Guardian Jul. 15, 2015

Unbeknown to them, Farepak, the savings club they were squirrelling their cash into, was in serious trouble.

From The Guardian Jun. 21, 2012

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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