weasel
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The reintroductions represented the first attempt to re-establish a sustainable breeding population of the tree-climbing members of the weasel family in the South West since they were hunted to extinction more than a century ago.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
No being a weasel and giving me three or four.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
And with quarterback Dylan Raiola out for the second half with an injury, USC was able to limit Johnson just enough to weasel its way back into the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2025
Although Kennedy repeatedly claimed that he's not anti-vaccine throughout his hearing, his statements about vaccines are loaded with weasel words and caveats that are common deflection strategies from vaccine denialists.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2025
A weasel was off by himself in a corner, saying his prayers over and over.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
That means eradicating invasive species such as possums, rats and mustelids—a group that includes weasels, ferrets and stoats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2024
Squid-headed figures in lab coats inject fish with pink dye and cradle docile geese in front of giant mushroom-capped trees while solemn weasels look on.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
Animal rehabilitation networks will offer white-tailed deer, shrews, weasels, and squirrels.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 29, 2024
Their female generals lead troops of between 6 and 40 of these little berserker weasels into battle with a plan of attack coordinated beside grizzly mongoose war veterans.
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2024
"Ha' you any rats, mice, polecats, or weasels, or any old cows sick o' the measles?"
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
Instead, he has weaseled around, and presumably didn’t tell his mother not to make her despicable request to you—he surely knew what she was up to and didn’t even have the courage to warn you.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2021
The virus has weaseled its way into our gyms and our fields.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2020
The crest-tailed mulgara weaseled its way back into the park before the start of this conservation project.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 18, 2017
As a man who only weaseled his way into the president’s good graces by betraying the trust of his previous employer, Raymond Tusk, a dissatisfied Seth seems potentially dangerous.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2016
Fang weaseled his way to the front, dragging me with him.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
This weaseling is probably the same reason that the court teed up Section 2’s constitutionality in an obscure order issued late on a Friday afternoon in August last year.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026
By the time it came out in 2017, the AI research emerging from the company’s labs was so promising that Kohs was invited to keep weaseling around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 17, 2026
It’s tech bros, like the ones weaseling into Hollywood, who give their every innovation a sterile sheen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
The sketchy dude turns out to be a shady fixer trying to save his own life by weaseling his way into unwitting police protection.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2021
Under their cover I stood a fair chance at weaseling off.
From Winning a Cause World War Stories by Inez Bigwood
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