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noun

cougar

large American feline resembling a lion

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Six example sentences with cougar, each labelled with its topic.

  • Trail cameras in the canyon caught a tawny cougar dragging a deer carcass up a dry creek bed.

    Environment

  • Rangers warn hikers to keep children close, since a cougar occasionally follows the ridge trail at dusk.

    Travel

  • Ten winters of patient waiting produced one frame: a cougar crossing fresh snow, tail low, eyes toward the lens.

    Photography

  • The college's mascot is a cougar, and a costumed version prowls the baseline during every timeout of the season.

    Basketball

  • A cougar can leap five meters straight up, which lets it reach ledges above the trail that no dog could follow.

    Science

  • Bounties paid by early state governments drove the cougar out of the eastern forests by 1900.

    History

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