squirrel
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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