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Recent Examples of tomcat
As an actor, Branagh has a voice that’s high, excitable, and light, and his physicality possesses a tomcat sneakiness.
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Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
Photo: Mattel and Netflix If Ryan’s tomcat vapidity represents a stereotypical male weakness, Raquelle’s backstabbing materialism plays with its female equivalent.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
The tomcat had been spotted wandering with a wound on his chest.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2024
Note that the scent does not draw squirrels, tomcats, or teenage boys.
—James Shreeve, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
The only good feral tomcat is one with an arrow through its head!
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2023
Her big red tomcat, Rex, lolls at her feet.
—Suzanne Van Atten, ajc, 12 Oct. 2013
The eggs were fertilized with sperm from a non-fluorescent tomcat and implanted in female cats, and five fluorescent green kittens were born, out of a total of eleven embryos (three now survive, as one was stillborn and another died during birth).
—Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2011
That’s because her mother was gray and white and her father was a big orange tomcat.
—Karen Jones, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2022
Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
Photo: Mattel and Netflix If Ryan’s tomcat vapidity represents a stereotypical male weakness, Raquelle’s backstabbing materialism plays with its female equivalent.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
The tomcat had been spotted wandering with a wound on his chest.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2024
Note that the scent does not draw squirrels, tomcats, or teenage boys.
—James Shreeve, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
The only good feral tomcat is one with an arrow through its head!
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2023
Her big red tomcat, Rex, lolls at her feet.
—Suzanne Van Atten, ajc, 12 Oct. 2013
The eggs were fertilized with sperm from a non-fluorescent tomcat and implanted in female cats, and five fluorescent green kittens were born, out of a total of eleven embryos (three now survive, as one was stillborn and another died during birth).
—Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2011
That’s because her mother was gray and white and her father was a big orange tomcat.
—Karen Jones, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tomcat
Noun
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The grey, striped tabby on Vito Corleone's lap wasn't actually in the original script.—
Devan Coggan,
EW.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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Loki is tabby and white while Onyx is a brown tabby, both are neutered and up-to-date on vaccinations.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
15 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The bond between Sergi and Nirvana is quite moving, but it's taken up a notch when Sergi adopted a kitten named Goku.—
Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal,
Parents,
11 Apr. 2025
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The death comes shortly after FWC biologists handled a litter of three kittens whose mom lost all three of her kittens from her last litter, McClatchy News previously reported.—
Olivia Lloyd,
Miami Herald,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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That seemed as incongruous a combination as a nightingale harmonizing with an alley cat.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
5 Mar. 2025
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The week’s biggest stories Presidential debate Biden’s verbal stumbles, Trump’s ‘morals of an alley cat’: 6 debate takeaways.—
Kevinisha Walker,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2024
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“Tomcat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tomcat. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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