henhouse
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Is this a fox in the henhouse scenario, they ask?
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
When finally she ran out of the henhouse with the exciting news, her mother did not scold her but patiently listened to her daughter’s account of her first scientific observation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
It is relevant because trusting the very agency that has been responsible for the myriad problems plaguing Arizona’s death-penalty system is a classic instance of letting the fox guard the henhouse.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2025
Jordan Adams, as it happened, was exactly the fox they wanted to eject from their own henhouse.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2023
Then it came to me: Last night, before we went inside from having been over the creek, Vonetta had leaned the bike against the henhouse.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
And there’s always the frightening prospect that wild birds could carry the virus into the henhouses needed in vaccine production.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2024
It has infiltrated big commercial poultry farms and tiny backyard henhouses, affecting 72 million farmed birds in the United States alone, according to the Department of Agriculture.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
While you can buy premade henhouses for as little as a few hundred dollars, most are flimsy.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023
Giving chickens access to pasture rather than confining them to henhouses is considered more humane treatment.
From Reuters ● Aug. 9, 2022
And there was a very big enclosure for the hens, with five henhouses in it, like the one in which I hid.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
