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[rat] / ræt /


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Aiming to escape the rat race and find opportunities for work in a bleak job market, the founders use artificial intelligence to code, communicate with customers and promote their products.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

In its 2026 review, the European Food Safety Authority noted that the compounds detected in the rat study could have been impurities already present in the administered sucralose.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

"Our younger generation... they're always in this little rat race, keeping up with social media," the 61-year-old said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

Tests have shown they can contain rat droppings and woodchips among other harmful substances.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Clare hadn’t seen a rat soul pass through Deadwood in months.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Videos of rats scuttling through corridors in other lycées soon hit social media, providing striking symbols of the discontent.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Gym rats can check their body composition of fat and muscle, people with heart issues can get their heartbeat captured, and mole owners can get their moles mapped to 0.1 mm.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

The former staff member told BBC News he was pressured replace labels on prepared food if it was not sold at the end of the day and said he regularly saw rats at the venue.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Earlier work by the same team, published in 2018, had identified compounds that dissolve in fat in the urine and feces of rats given sucralose.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

They were caught like rats in a trap.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

As a young woman in the 1920s, she disguised herself as a man and worked on a local archaeological dig at the Roman Villa Casale until she was ratted out and sent packing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The heavy black eyeliner and white-face makeup, the holey fishnets and ratted hair — these also serve as a beacon to fellow misfits, a way of finding your tribe while scaring off the normals.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2023

Finally, Perry himself turns on his schoolteacher girlfriend, Ginny Aimes, on a dime when the gun is brought to light, assuming she is the person who ratted him out.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2023

Simone now knew she had ratted him out.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2022

He never went back to work at the Garden, but that girl, the bossy one, never ratted him out, either.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

And who wouldn’t have to modify their behavior if they thought Rover was ratting them out to his pals down at Paws & Claws?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

Stroup has said that ratting out Peter Bourne was the “stupidest decision” he ever made.

From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2025

"But he could be ratting out Eastman and Powell, for example, in order to make a deal."

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2023

Which is, you know, the problem here, and what all who tuned in should now be ratting him out for.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2019

I finally got Mister Johnny out the way and now I have to worry about Miss Hilly coming over and ratting me out.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett




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