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jaguar

[jag-wahr, -yoo-ahr, jag-yoo-er] / ˈdʒæg wɑr, -juˌɑr, ˈdʒæg ju ər /


NOUN
panther
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Others take a more menacing tone, like a jaguar facing off with a dog in a snowy backyard.

From Los Angeles Times May 2, 2026

Catwoman appears here as a jaguar warrior, since there were no domestic cats at that point in history in the Americas.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 9, 2025

Rico, who lives with Tina, a female two-toed sloth, in the zoo's jaguar house, has been regularly monitored since the surgery.

From BBC Apr. 17, 2025

Lundberg and his diver companion had found fossils in the same place before, including mammoth teeth, bones of an ancient jaguar and parts of a dire wolf.

From Seattle Times Jun. 6, 2024

But something in the way the jaguar in the weaving studied me through its slit yellow eyes tickled the inside of my head.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis

“She was born under a full moon in the arms of mother nature. The jaguars taught her to run, the birds to fly,” her intro video intoned.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 13, 2026

With them go their predators, the jaguars, ocelots and—yes—anacondas.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 29, 2026

This region shelters not only migratory songbirds but also jaguars, tapirs, and scarlet macaws.

From Science Daily Nov. 22, 2025

For decades these animals – lions, tigers, pumas, cheetahs and jaguars – have been a sign of power, status and even political fealty in the country.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2025

Some, such as jaguars and tapirs, had migrated to higher ground during the rainy season, but there were still many animals all around them.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple




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