wildcat
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As well as identifying new release sites, the national strategy will prioritise restoring and reconnecting wildcat habitats to allow the expansion of their range.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Some in the broader settler movement draw a distinction between Hilltop Youth who volunteer as farm hands on agricultural outposts and those living in so-called wildcat camps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Nineteenth-century wildcat notes circulated in an era when collateral requirements, where they existed at all, were routinely evaded and unenforceable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
Indigenous chief Bepdjo Mekragnotire is once again preparing to lead a group of warriors to chase wildcat gold miners away from his people's territory in Brazil's Amazon rainforest.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Lyra stood up shakily, holding the wildcat Pantalaimon to her breast.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
As human beings began to organize themselves into sedentary, agrarian societies, they formed mutualistic relationships with the wildcats that prevented vermin from decimating their grain stores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Employees routinely took newborn kangaroos, wildcats and goats home overnight to provide round-the-clock feeding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
The south west of England has been identified as a prime site for reintroduction because of the woodland cover it offers across mid-Devon, connected by other habitats that suit wildcats.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2025
"They say wildcats live on voles. Well, voles are feeding my barn owls so if you reduce the vole population you are having an effect on the barn owls," he explained.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2025
It was uninhabited by humans but teeming with wildlife— iron-beaked gaganas flew overhead, glinting in the sun, and as the boat drew in, a cluster of small wildcats with luminescent fur went sprinting away.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
On the other is Marvin Davis, 59, son of a New York dress manufacturer who wildcatted an oil fortune in the Rocky Mountains.
From Time Magazine Archive
With dollars accumulated from purchase and sale of oil leases during boom years around 1906, he "wildcatted."
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile, he struck oil, wildcatted himself into more millions than he could count.
From Time Magazine Archive
Benedum discovered the famous De Mares Pool in Colombia on which International Petroleum fattened and wildcatted in Rumania's Ploesti field at Queen Marie's personal invitation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides practicing law, he wildcatted for oil with moderate success.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most of the publicly available geothermal data was collected when oil-and-gas companies were wildcatting across the West between 1960 and 1980.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
But others were wildcatting operations that processed and burned waste left over from recycling without regard to human health or the environment.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2020
Go far enough back in baseball’s history – into the game’s actual disreputable, exploitive, wildcatting past, not the shelf-stable official one – and the same story repeats itself one generation after another.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2017
A 1980s tale of the wildcatting days of personal computing and network connectivity, the series set its first two seasons in Texas, surprisingly but not ahistorically.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2016
We didn't know it was wildcatting until after he had tried to repair it.
From Stand by for Mars! by Louis Glanzman
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