sabre-toothed tiger
Britishnoun
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Otherwise, the reactive mechanisms that were evolved to deal with running away from a sabre-toothed tiger or whatever it was.
From Salon ● May 26, 2024
If you could bring something extinct back to life, what would you choose?The sabre-toothed tiger.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2012
And intermittent fasting is recommended as a way of mimicking the effects of, say, failing to catch a sabre-toothed tiger.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2012
Not for him the modern age, in which "the sabre-toothed tiger and the ant are our paragons, and the butterfly is condemned for its wings, which are uneconomic."
From Time Magazine Archive
As a matter of fact, the mammoth has gone, the woolly rhinoceros of Northern Europe has gone, the sabre-toothed tiger prowls no more.
From Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Brisbane, Arthur
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