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- adjective Characteristic of
protective maternal behavior.
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Examples
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Finally, I'm not recommending that anyone move, but if you're in mama-bear mode, you might want to take the opportunity for a short vacation during clean up.
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff: Health Risks of Mold: One Mama Bear's Concerns Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff 2011
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Once I came out of my post-partum, mama-bear phase, I felt a little sheepish about giving up our beautiful little cottage -- and our security deposit.
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff: Health Risks of Mold: One Mama Bear's Concerns Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff 2011
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Finally, I'm not recommending that anyone move, but if you're in mama-bear mode, you might want to take the opportunity for a short vacation during clean up.
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff: Health Risks of Mold: One Mama Bear's Concerns Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff 2011
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Finally, I'm not recommending that anyone move, but if you're in mama-bear mode, you might want to take the opportunity for a short vacation during clean up.
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff: Health Risks of Mold: One Mama Bear's Concerns Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff 2011
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Once I came out of my post-partum, mama-bear phase, I felt a little sheepish about giving up our beautiful little cottage -- and our security deposit.
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff: Health Risks of Mold: One Mama Bear's Concerns Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff 2011
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Once I came out of my post-partum, mama-bear phase, I felt a little sheepish about giving up our beautiful little cottage -- and our security deposit.
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff: Health Risks of Mold: One Mama Bear's Concerns Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff 2011
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As teacher and proud mama-bear to some of the most creative, hard-working students on the planet, I was thrilled to bring stories from our South Bronx classroom into the legislative process.
Kate Quarfordt: The Heart of Teaching and Learning: Dropping Knowledge on Capitol Hill 2010
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But I eased up on my mama-bear instincts as I saw one of the Russian scientists patiently climbing down from the tower to explain the wonders of belugas to each group that showed up.
Cynthia Powell: Humans' Love Affair With Beluga Whales- Are We Smothering Them? Cynthia Powell 2010
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The context-free, demented, almost demonic smirk is here replaced with a mama-bear look of angry consternation at seeing her small daughter physically bullied by three older boys.
Archive 2009-05-31 2009
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The environment also brings out what security experts call the "mama-bear instinct."
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