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Steven Hoggett’s choreography, much more central than in other productions, has a similar effect, filling the stage with strange, disorienting gestures: extreme leaning, ratlike huddling, abdominal contractions that look like retching.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2023

Malone Moulin, a 3-year-old resident of Le Havre, France, insists on two things: toting a ratlike stuffed animal with him wherever he goes, and asserting that his parents are impostors.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2021

Early mammal relatives, including the beaverlike tritylodontids and ratlike morganucodontids, were also potential prey for Dilophosaurus.

From Scientific American • Dec. 15, 2020

Furtive, ratlike mammals lived in the gloomy understory.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 29, 2019

The way he was moving his ratlike mouth, I knew he was working up another loogie to spit on me.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen