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wildcat

[wahyld-kat] / ˈwaɪldˌkæt /
NOUN
large cat
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In April, while Prigozhin stayed at the hotel in Bangui, Wagner fighters in Russian helicopters conducted aerial surveillance of wildcat gold-mining operations near the South Sudan border.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

In the areas chosen for the eventual translocation of wildcat populations there will be additional microchipping, neutering and vaccination of pet and feral cats to reduce interbreeding.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Some in the broader settler movement draw a distinction between Hilltop Youth who volunteer as farm hands on agricultural outposts and those living in so-called wildcat camps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Indigenous chief Bepdjo Mekragnotire is once again preparing to lead a group of warriors to chase wildcat gold miners away from his people's territory in Brazil's Amazon rainforest.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

But the boat mother set her hands on either side of Lyra’s face, and her daemon, a hawk, bent gently to lick Pantalaimon’s wildcat head.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

As human beings began to organize themselves into sedentary, agrarian societies, they formed mutualistic relationships with the wildcats that prevented vermin from decimating their grain stores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Estelle Morgan points out that wildcats were once widespread throughout the UK.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Saving Wildcats has been successful in reintroducing 46 wildcats into the flats and foothills of the Cairngorms.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Employees routinely took newborn kangaroos, wildcats and goats home overnight to provide round-the-clock feeding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

It was uninhabited by humans but teeming with wildlife— iron-beaked gaganas flew overhead, glinting in the sun, and as the boat drew in, a cluster of small wildcats with luminescent fur went sprinting away.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Benedum discovered the famous De Mares Pool in Colombia on which International Petroleum fattened and wildcatted in Rumania's Ploesti field at Queen Marie's personal invitation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Besides practicing law, he wildcatted for oil with moderate success.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile, he struck oil, wildcatted himself into more millions than he could count.

From Time Magazine Archive

With dollars accumulated from purchase and sale of oil leases during boom years around 1906, he "wildcatted."

From Time Magazine Archive

On the other is Marvin Davis, 59, son of a New York dress manufacturer who wildcatted an oil fortune in the Rocky Mountains.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most of the publicly available geothermal data was collected when oil-and-gas companies were wildcatting across the West between 1960 and 1980.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

Go far enough back in baseball’s history – into the game’s actual disreputable, exploitive, wildcatting past, not the shelf-stable official one – and the same story repeats itself one generation after another.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2017

A 1980s tale of the wildcatting days of personal computing and network connectivity, the series set its first two seasons in Texas, surprisingly but not ahistorically.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2016

It’s fun to think of it as of a panoramic velvet painting: The Western landscape of Bonanza and Giant and wildcatting George H.W.

From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2012

Now the mass in number-three rocket is building and wildcatting itself.

From Stand by for Mars! by Louis Glanzman


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