vulpine

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And now, for the first time, a specimen has been successfully GPS-collared and released back into the region — marking a major victory for conservation efforts to protect the elusive vulpine.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

His voice could convey flirtatiousness, amusement, heartache or wily agility, and his syncopated phrasing was as close to jazz as to traditional blues, leaping easily into falsetto or letting loose a vulpine howl.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2022

Wrote Frank: “I hope having to replace papers doesn’t negatively affect The Post’s financial status. Maybe The Post should consider expanding to this vulpine demographic and accepting payments in the form of rodent carcasses.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2021

A slim, pale, vulpine man in his mid-thirties, with well-tended light-brown hair and a goatee, came onstage, dressed in a trim black suit and a black shirt.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2019

There was something vulpine about the way the woman sat in her comer by the courtyard, something reptilian about her eyes.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin