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Downing Street has since rowed back, but as one SNP figure puts it, "the cat is well and truly out the bag".

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Each represents a cat that changed their life in some way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

So if you don’t want your cat climbing your furniture, Dresser suggested, consider investing in a cat tree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go kick the cat out of the bedroom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Just then one little monkey, no bigger than a small cat, climbed up onto the rim of a mash barrel.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

She said summers in Aix-en-Provence, where she used to live, had become so hot that her cats were struggling to breathe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Just like some people prefer aloof cats to Labrador retrievers, some people get exhausted by my extroversion and geeky enthusiasm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

“Two of my current cats are what we call ‘foster fail,’” Butler said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

As you open up the cats to more rooms in your home, make sure you keep an eye on them and familiarize yourself with all the hiding spots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

And then I felt really stupid, because cats can’t talk.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

Last week, he was catted by the Association of German Friends of Cats, and by Herr Victor Fraenkl, chairman of the German League for Animal Rights, one of the Association's principal spokesmen.

From Time Magazine Archive

A schoolboy's game, played with small round balls made of stone dust, catted marbles.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

"Ay, he's catted his anchor, sure enough; if the figure be not Hope, it must be Faith, or Charity."

From The Two Admirals by James Fenimore Cooper

The anchor catted, and the mainsail unfurled, they stood out for the open before a gentle breeze, without interference from the fort.

From Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

Still another kind of chimney was the "catted" chimney, made of "cats" or rolled-up strips of clay mixed with straw, and placed closely together within a framework of wooden posts and rails.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman

He was a Viet Nam Vet who had been "catting" on the city streets for years.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2016

The lads up front have got their sprint on at the top and after some catting and mousing they finish the San Mauro Cilento in the following order: Wauters, Boaro and Taborre.

From The Guardian ● May 6, 2013

We’ve been laying our voices down, catting and scatting, and following variations of the same notes for so long we didn’t always know we were doing it.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

The form of hooking on the messenger was gone through with, as also were the various preparations for catting and fishing the anchor.

From Down the Rhine Young America in Germany by Oliver Optic

To Denbigh's satisfaction Armstrong had been sent for'ard to superintend the weighing and catting on the anchor.

From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman