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[deer] / dɪər /


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The 68-year-old, who was responsible for conservation and deer management, said: "If your job is your hobby, you don't work a day in your life."

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

I have a friend who lives amid the trees, and one bright morning, she found a half-eaten deer carcass in her yard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Booming deer populations in The Broads are becoming a growing issue as the animals can cause damage to the environment through grazing.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Forest Service trailhead, and in summer you can see bison grazing near Spanish Creek, along with whitetail deer and occasionally a black bear or moose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

We ran like venadas, frightened deer, fleeing all the way down the hill toward the safety of foreign woods and eerie dirt paths.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

He asked, “Are there dead deers in mythology that are significant?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

“There are deers behind the El Cariso Park and the L.A. Mission College, Lopez Dam and near another county dam higher up on the Pacoima River wash,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2024

“The people we put in the game, they’re never scared. There’s no deers in the headlights,” Wood said.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2022

“There were years when we actually had so many deers donated that we ran out of money,” said Bud Thomas, the group’s longtime treasurer.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021

Mr. Polite said I throwed up so plentiful that didn’t no deers nor rabbits die in the woods for five years after.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis




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