badger

Tejon means “badger” in Spanish, and all it took was some Spaniard on an 1806 expedition happening upon a dead badger there for the name to stick.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

Asked whether Wales could see badger culling in future in response to bovine TB he said he agreed with Wales' TB Programme Board that the disease should be addressed "in wildlife" as well as livestock.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

"He deserves better than being replaced by a badger," he said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026

Ian called badger culling "a national disgrace" and said: "I would swap this award immediately for the government to rescind all existing badger culling licenses."

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2025

Indeed, an accident was to blame for his grisly appearance, but he would not be discussing the details of his undeath with a badger, of all things.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

The lakes region Mr. Hoffman describes as “magnetic and mercurial” is home to bears, wolves, badgers, otters and a surprising variety of other creatures, yet their ways of life are being threatened.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

The land abutting the Pinto Mountains Wilderness is also home to badgers, bighorn sheep and Mojave fringe-toed lizards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

Possibilities, subject to a public consultation, include badgers and otters as well as frogs, hedgehogs, barn owls and newts.

From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026

The cameras have captured badgers, foxes and hedgehogs as well as the nesting swifts.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2025

AH round the panelled walls there were ancient paintings of departed badgers, famous in their day for scholarship or godliness, lit from above by shaded glow-worms.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Because that’s what gets done to the biggest guys—they are badgered, bullied, and banged around, with the hope the referees ignore a lot of the contact, because the big guy just is too big.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Later headlines would say that Solanas believed Warhol “controlled her life” and that he had “legal claim” over her self-published writing, which she frequently badgered him to read.

From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026

He didn't sing the song live until December 2014 after his crew badgered him to do it.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025

For months, Meta’s algorithm badgered me to buy a little piece of plastic mounted on a magnet.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025

I started the car and pulled out of the parking lot, but all her teamwork stuff aside, I still felt like I was getting badgered into something, and I wanted the last word.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

Costco raised its fees in 2024 — the first such increase in seven years — after months of badgering from Wall Street.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 2026

After successfully badgering his dad to take him to a local club to play on full-size tables at the age of eight, the young Hunter made the leap from table top snooker with aplomb.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026

And then there are the bit players they run into throughout who, in Mr. Panahi’s acidic vision of a desperate society, tend to end interactions by badgering for a tip.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

“The jury sees this, and it ends up risking looking like you’re just badgering this woman,” Haberman said.

From Salon ● May 10, 2024

She scratched her chin and looked like she was gearing herself up for punishment—another long chapter she’d have to endure, and then I'd be badgering her about what she thought.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English