hunted
Britishadjective
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Naturalist Stephen Boyes believes massive elephants live undetected on a remote plateau in Angola; they’d be descendants of a giant pachyderm hunted and killed 70 years ago that now resides in the Smithsonian.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
Senior Iranian political figures, while hunted from the air and limiting their appearances in public, are regularly posting messages that reflect recent developments and project unity and defiance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
During the Early Cretaceous period, when it lived, small carnivorous dinosaurs hunted in the same ecosystems.
From Science Daily • Feb. 18, 2026
Once hunted to extinction in France, wolves began crossing over from Italy after gaining protected status under the 1979 Bern Convention.
From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026
Since Isaac often went with Jefferson when he hunted squirrels and partridge, or visited him in Monticello’s library and workrooms, he saw glimpses of Jefferson as the gentleman farmer and tinkerer.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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