racoon
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The results identify a shortlist of animals – including racoon dogs, civets and bamboo rats – as potential sources of the pandemic.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024
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
When the Coolidges left the White House, so did their pet racoon, leaving an empty racoon-sized treehouse on the White House lawn.
From Slate • Jan. 31, 2021
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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