- plural of keeper.
keepers
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ZSL said almost nothing was known about them when they arrived, and keepers have since developed breeding techniques that are being shared with the CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana's breeding centre in Kumasi.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
In “Beowulf” and other works, these wetlands have also offered a useful literary metaphor as keepers of cultural memory and symbols of repressed terrors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Did the keepers of Christie’s legacy object to anything in your manuscript?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Although the zoo houses more than 14,000 animals, the keepers will only have time to measure and log the weight of about 400 creatures.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
In fact, a lot of times, depending on his shift, he’d come out with me after school to haul in my catch and toss the keepers into the baskets on my skiff.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
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