mouser

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Recent Examples of mouser Bishop herself appears in the belly of an especially large robot that very vaguely resembles a mouser with arms and feels a lot like a hint at Krang, the evil brain from Dimension X that terrorized the Turtles in the 1987 cartoon series. Wes Davis, The Verge, 9 June 2024 Aoshima, after all, hadn’t always been a cat island; once, it had been populated mostly by people, fishermen, who brought the cats over to work as mousers. Hanya Yanagihara Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 10 May 2023 Though cats had been employed as chief mousers for centuries, Larry was the first to be given the official title. Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2023 This cat, the man remarks, may make a good mouser. Rebecca Curtis, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020 Koudounaris learned of an army tomcat named the Colonel, for example, who was stationed at San Francisco’s Presidio in the 1890s and was said to be the best mouser the army ever had. Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2020 The 12-year-old tabby is the government’s official chief mouser to the Cabinet Office. Washington Post, 24 July 2019 As mousers, cats earn their keep guarding the sacks of grain that are essential to distilleries and breweries. Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017 Philadelphia’s Animal Care and Control Team established the program about four years ago to place unadoptable cats — the biters and the skittish, the swatters and the ones who won’t use a litter box — into jobs as mousers at barns or stables. Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mouser
Noun
  • Ginger kitties are known among cat owners for being particularly friendly and feisty.
    Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
  • The transfer kitty will be topped up with money from sales.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • Having an outdoor dog or cat creates a definite warning for rabbits to stay away.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 21 May 2025
  • Some people even hike with their cats, but not all cats enjoy it.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • The team anticipates caring for the kitten for at least 10 months, officials said.
    Brooke Baitinger, Sacbee.com, 15 May 2025
  • Male kittens, also like most other male mammals, have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome.
    Gayoung Lee, Scientific American, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • The pussycat bow blouse, which was popularized in the 1970s among professional women, is a feminine version of a traditional tie.
    Therèsa M. Winge, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Sapphira’s outfit is the wrong color, but her literal pussycat wig is funny.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • Trucker reunited with cat A US trucker was reunited with his cat after the moggy fled from his vehicle during a pit stop at a truck stop in Nevada.
    Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week UK, theweek, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Diodorus Siculus, a Greek author who wrote in the first century A.D., recounts the tale of a Roman soldier who made the mistake of killing a sacred moggy in Egypt.
    Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2022
Noun
  • Research has found that some of today's U.S. house cats could be the descendants of the feline nobility of ancient Egypt.
    Kelli Bender, People.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • In a viral TikTok video, two house cats embark on a mission to capture a spider perched high on the ceiling, failing in the most hilarious way.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025

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“Mouser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mouser. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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