coyote

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Recent Examples of coyote Other areas are raked in patterns resembling a Zen garden, and some contain replica tracks of native animals, including coyotes, bears and snakes. Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2025 No scientist had ever seen a mass turtle nesting event like this—a strategy known as predator swamping, with thousands of hatchlings overwhelming the threat of birds, coyotes, crabs and fish. Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2025 Teams receive awards for the heaviest coyote, lightest coyote and most kills. Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025 Identifying Foxes As members of the canid family, foxes are related to dogs, coyotes, and wolves. Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for coyote
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coyote
Noun
  • But change comes hard to an institution that counted Benjamin Franklin as the first postmaster general and uses an army of 635,000 union workers and contractors, a fleet of specialized trucks, boats, float planes and even mules to help deliver about 300 pieces of mail daily.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Scoop up the latest styles, including the Italian fashion house’s spin on the 530 sneaker, with a fresh, suede fabrication and colorful laces in a slim runner shape, or the playful mule, slide hybrid design.
    Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Driving Pa Beck back to his mansion, Reacher takes an odd swerve into family counselor mode, telling the gunrunner that his son deserves to know that the reason he’s been made to suffer these last five years is because, welp, his old man is a gunrunner.
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Cartels and guerrillas in South America are similarly dependent on border-crossing drug smugglers and gunrunners for the tools of their trade.
    Paul J. Angelo, Foreign Affairs, 21 Apr. 2020
Noun
  • The supply lines of this opioid stretch from Chinese labs to Mexican cartels and (via smugglers who are mostly American) to consumers in the U.S.
    Andreas Kluth, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
  • According to the government’s sentencing memorandum, Tin aided and abetted turtle smugglers in the U.S. from February 2018 to June 2023.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Royals were 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position, a key area from Friday’s win.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 5 Apr. 2025
  • There was also the fact that Braves hitters felt overdue to break out after a weeklong slump and get some hits with runners in scoring position.
    David O'Brien, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • His death reportedly was the result of a dispute with a bootlegger.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Childhood friends, Costello and Genovese thrived as bootleggers during Prohibition and rose to the upper ranks of the mob.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025

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“Coyote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coyote. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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