coyote

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Recent Examples of coyote Here's how to keep wild turkeys away from your yard Other Animals While you may be tempted to blame other animals such as opossums or snakes, or even coyotes for making holes or burrows in your yard, these creatures are more likely to use existing animal holes for their dens. Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 Dec. 2024 Keep an eye out for deer and coyotes among the brush. Daniel Bromfield, The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2025 The coyote, which was crouched behind a tree, lunged at the girl and grabbed the back of her head, causing serious injuries. Elizabeth Pritchett, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2024 Further, while rural turkeys contend with predators like coyotes and bobcats, their city cousins rarely have to worry about these threats. Anne Readel, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for coyote 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coyote
Noun
  • Michelle Williams, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Elizabeth Olsen in Tory Burch pierced mules at Tory Burch’s spring 2025 show.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The Amazon Original unscripted series Tom Green Country follows Green’s life on his country farm, which includes his 1,500-pound mule, a donkey and six chickens.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Cartels and guerrillas in South America are similarly dependent on border-crossing drug smugglers and gunrunners for the tools of their trade.
    Paul J. Angelo, Foreign Affairs, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Her father’s work as a gunrunner and pilot led the British authorities to throw him in jail, weeks after Ms. Mehta was born.
    Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • Four years into the border crisis, OLS officers are continuing to apprehend human smugglers in Webb County, whose residents overwhelmingly support President-elect Donald Trump and his border policies.
    Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Yet, as the Trump inauguration approaches, smugglers have continued to urge migrants to get to the border and avoid a potential crackdown.
    César Rodríguez, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • This is not counting roughing calls on him as a runner, like the one that basically won the AFC championship for the Chiefs in 2022.
    Michael Salfino, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Roland Tieh is the show runner and executive producer.
    Marc Berman, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • What eliminated the bootleggers wasn’t more prohibition, but legalization, after all.
    The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 23 Jan. 2025
  • This episode, in which Prohibition is reinstated in Springfield and Homer becomes a bootlegger known as the Beer Baron, pursued by an Elliot Ness-type crime fighter named Rex Banner, is one such episode.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024

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“Coyote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coyote. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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