mouse

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The mouse of a woman who believed in him, who helped him, a nobody just like him, mouse to his mook.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Clutching a mysterious tool the shape of a mouse coffin, Firth’s villain tracks Daniel’s location by mentally transplanting himself into another person’s body, changing the color of their pupils to his own icy blue.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

The whole point of a cat-and-mouse tale is to show us how clever the mouse is, but Daniel doesn’t do anything the average person wouldn’t think of.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

These results closely matched the biological mechanisms observed in the mouse studies.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

But I’m not playing mouse to his cat anymore.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin