tabby
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Enter Sleek, the crabby tabby cat, and the Rev. Vicarious Cronch, the biblically recondite goat: interlocutors, speaking beasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Since then, the white and tabby cat, officially introduced on Downing Street's website as the "Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office", has reigned supreme from the country's most photographed doorstep.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
When Alan gave his Persian tabby cat, Smokey, its regular flea treatment last year, he thought nothing could go wrong.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025
Ancona and Mathews, 71, escaped the fire with pictures they grabbed from the walls and their 14-year-old mixed tabby cat Callie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2025
"Fine. Let's just get on with it. See that tabby over there?"
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
She contends that cats—from tabbies to tigers—are quintessential products of evolution.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 4, 2023
There are spotted shorthairs, eyes turned upward in remorse; blue-and-green tabbies with Groucho Marx eyebrows knitted in confusion.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2021
“There are so many of them who need to be adopted that are typically tabbies or black cats or older cats,” she said.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 14, 2021
These theatrical tabbies and toms will survive this latest wreck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2019
In the tabbies the Mayor’s Chain should swirl around the chest.
From The Domestic Cat by Stables, Gordon
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