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  • According to Nigel Gibbens, the UK's chief veterinary officer, research has struggled to find a formula that can survive the badger's acidic stomach and be absorbed by the animal.

    Do we have to shoot the badgers? 2011

  • I want the pathetic rightwingers of this country to continue to waste their money by sending it in to this lip-sticked badger's PAC.

    Palin PAC raises $730K in six months 2009

  • And he too happens to have a bum which makes your average badger's look like a size-zero model's after she has been on a crash diet.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • Protruding yellow teeth, like a forest boar's, deformed their mouths, giving their faces a brutish aspect, and their fingers ended in long hooked claws like a badger's.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • The badger's partner is a coyote who's pouncing at the other end of the prairie dog's burrow.

    For young readers: ‘How to Clean a Hippopotamus' 2010

  • First of all, no sentient Democrat gives a badger's ass about what Our Lady of Perpetual Sighs has to say about Democrats in general, Hillary Clinton in particular, or anything beyond those spheres; like MoDo, Noonan only strikes a receptive chord with fellow echo-chamberites -- the same ones who keep driveling about how this or that incident fits into the "evolving narrative" of a politician's public persona.

    Sunday in the Vajayjay with Hillaray: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • It's not a crown, it's a somewhat stylised badger's face looking straight at the viewer.

    Things that crack me up #40 Kay Olson 2008

  • Pliny the Elder tells us that the leucrota in fact has a badger's head, and not a horse's head.

    Must Love WMAMs: A Romantic Comedy 2007

  • Pliny the Elder tells us that the leucrota in fact has a badger's head, and not a horse's head.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • So if you think of the word "set" -- a set can be a badger's burrow, a set can be one of the pleats in an Elizabethan ruff -- and there's one numbered definition in the OED.

    Erin McKean redefines the dictionary 2007

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