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beaver

[bee-ver] / ˈbi vər /


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There was: the Thirsty Beaver on Germantown Road, a biker bar with a stuffed beaver stationed at the front door.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Eleanor Nash, community ranger at Forestry England, said beaver kits were nursed for about two to three months.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

Soccer fans visiting a very large gas station for the first time… carry-on BBQ sandwiches & beaver nuggets?

From Salon Jun. 28, 2026

Giant beaver dams in Alberta have so effectively transformed some stretches of forests into wetlands that they’ve helped stop raging wildfires.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

It smelt of reindeer and red deer and beaver, and fresh blood -and something else: a new smell that he hadn’t yet learnt.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

One success story however comes from the Holnicote Estate in Somerset, where the introduction of beavers to create wetlands has helped the area remain green and lush despite this summer's drought.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

The National Trust said the scheme showed the value of "nature-based solutions", in which natural features such as rivers connected with floodplains and wildlife including beavers are used to deliver benefits for landscapes and people.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

And in its forests and on its grasslands, tule elk and mule deer graze, while bobcats and coyotes hunt for rabbits and mountain beavers.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

It will be spent on projects on the River Stour, with Kent the home to England's largest population of wild beavers, and ancient woodland at the Blean, near Canterbury.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

Roz roamed across the island and checked in with the beavers and the bears and all the friends she’d missed.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

If Musk had quietly beavered away on something that might have helped, that would have been one thing, but that isn’t Musk’s style – he happily admits to his own arrogance.

From The Guardian Jul. 17, 2018

For two months, they beavered away at the problem.

From Slate Jun. 9, 2014

There were issues of "privacy" and "commercial confidentiality" here apparently, as big hackers beavered away untouched.

From The Guardian Jul. 28, 2013

"They have beavered away trying this and trying that and the formulations have changed over the last 50 years, but not radically."

From BBC Apr. 11, 2011

He is a most industrious small chopper, and the other day gnawed down, or as the children call it, "beavered" down, a misshapen tulip tree, which was about fifty feet high.

From Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt

A detective, in the form of a Firmin scholar, is beavering around.

From New York Times May 1, 2023

Adam Le Doux, the creator of the game-making software, was working as a programmer at Microsoft while beavering away on creative projects in his spare time.

From The Verge Mar. 7, 2022

Hewlett, meanwhile, has been beavering away at his home in Paris.

From BBC Dec. 9, 2020

Still, alphas from Yale or Harvard aren’t likely to be happy beavering away on projects that never reach fruition.

From Washington Post Aug. 11, 2017

Thank'ee, Hurry; thank'ee, with all my heart—but I do a little beavering for myself as occasions offer.

From The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper




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