racoon
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Similar strategies have already been carried out to prevent racoon rabies in the U.S. and fox rabies in Europe, and also to protect cattle against tick-borne disease.
From Science Daily • Oct. 18, 2023
In 1926, someone sent a live racoon to the White House, with the idea that the first family could have it for dinner.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2023
"We saw the results appear on our screens, and it was: racoon dog, racoon dog, racoon dog, racoon dog," she recalled.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2023
I have been speaking more with my fellow prisoners, attempting to rouse them to throw off their chains and join me in rising up against our racoon overlords.
From Slate • Apr. 7, 2020
And in his early days of ushering, he’d once Recollected with a racoon who’d belonged to Pain, and quite frankly, he saw things he could not unsee.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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