squirrel

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A squirrel is casually cracking into your latest $67 contraption, and now you understand: You’re competing with a specialist, shaped by a deep evolutionary history in the trees.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2026

I squirrel away a small handful to snap into a fideo-style chicken soup.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2026

"What that means is that, in the case of the squirrel, it nibbled on aloe and took those metabolites into its own bloodstream," explained Bromage.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2026

Diablo Circle when she suddenly felt something heavy on her leg, when she looked down she saw it — a squirrel.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025

Instead, here she was on the good ship Acorn, in a bunk that was as small and hard as a nutshell and not nearly as cozy as a squirrel nest in the treetops would be.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood