weasel

Example Sentences

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“But when universities do the same thing by trying to weasel out of their contracts, it’s equally corrosive.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

Rather than make direct claims about cures, supplement promoters resort to vague boasts about their products using what the Canadian researchers identify as weasel words that can foster the impression of efficacy.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025

Traditional brushes are made with animal hair from squirrels, goats or sable, a species of weasel.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2024

Lacking Spotify, they decided to pass the time by undertaking “an enumeration and actual count” of road-killed animals—a battered weasel here, a flattened garter snake there.

From Slate • May 25, 2024

It is said that sometimes he fascinates them, as the weasel does, by rolling and playing in the open, coming closer little by little until he can make a grab.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams