grizzly
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Old friend Kirk Cousins will warm the Raiders offense long enough for No. 1 pick Fernando Mendoza to grow a grizzly Kenny Stabler-style beard or for part-owner Brady to un-retire, whatever comes first.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The California grizzly is so important to our self-image that 180 years ago, we put one on the flag that evolved into the state flag.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
And if we’re being honest, DiCaprio may have earned an Oscar for his performance in “The Revenant,” but he does not have the biceps to take on that CGI grizzly.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
In an accompanying statement, the groups argued the rule changes could immediately harm wildlife including Florida manatees, grizzly bears, salmon and steelhead fish, bird species like rufa red knots and golden-cheeked warblers, and insect pollinators.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
I stop in the doorway and give that grizzly bear a good long stare.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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Today, federal wildlife officials estimate there are close to 2,000 grizzlies in the lower 48, concentrated primarily in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
But despite being featured on the state flag, wild grizzlies haven’t been spotted in the state for about a century.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
“Everybody’s used to seeing grizzlies on TV catching salmon out of the air at the top of some waterfall, but black bears are one of the laziest animals on the planet,” he explains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2025
For 11 games in a row now, Scotland have been salmon leaping and Ireland have been the grizzlies waiting at falls-edge to gobble them up.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2025
That was one good thing about winter in Alaska—not worrying about grizzlies.
From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis
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Promotional artwork for season five seems to show a grizzlier Rick than we’ve seen before and, thus, probably some payout on the cliff hanger ending.
From Time ● Oct. 10, 2014
The bears ground the eagles with a swipe of the paw, and it only gets grizzlier from there.
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2012
They hold to a notion of the individual that the grizzliest fur trapper west of the Missouri River 170 years ago would have found extreme.
From Salon ● May 26, 2013
Mated with the game's irresistible sweetness, the outcome is a game-world which is truly universal in its appeal – the youngest children and grizzliest hardcore gamers alike will be held equally rapt by its charms.
From The Guardian ● May 27, 2010
And when my father was a young man, somewhere up north of Sacramento, in a creek called Cache Slough, the tules was full of grizzliest He used to go in an' shoot 'em.
From The Valley of the Moon by Jack London
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