tomcat
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He had traveled out with his wife and mother-in-law from the town of Vasylivka, just across the front line, with a few belongings in plastic bags and their ginger tomcat in a pet basket.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
The Cats Protection charity said the family in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, was also being watched over by a tomcat, which was "very unusual".
From BBC ● May 18, 2021
He’s finely embodied by Will Chase, as dashing tomcat Fred Graham, who has disappointed O’Hara’s pouting Lilli Vanessi one time too many.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2019
A childhood friend compared him to “a tomcat, constantly tense and grumpy”; later in life he acquired the nickname Gniewosz, which blended his name with the Polish word for “anger.”
From The New Yorker ● May 22, 2017
The Thousand began to close in—stoats, a fox, even a tomcat from some farm or other.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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