coyote

noun

Definition of coyotenext
as in mule

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Recent Examples of coyote Tom Waits lends his feral baritone to a commander of a coyote military brigade. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2026 The person denied feeding the coyote and allowed the officer to examine the property, which yielded no evidence for filing a violation. — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 The coyote absolutely launched itself into the air to grab the piece of fruit. — David Hookstead Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026 The department said the coyote was involved in an incident with a 16-month-old near the 3300 block of Glenhurst Avenue on Friday. — Austin Turner, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for coyote
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coyote
  1. mule
  2. gunrunner
  3. smuggler
  4. runner
  5. bootlegger
Noun
  • From the unfulfilled promise of 40 acres and a mule, to modern-day reparations proposals, initiatives to address the legacy of slavery are entering a new era of political uncertainty.
    — Fatima Hussein, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
  • From the unfulfilled promise of 40 acres and a mule, to modern day reparations proposals — initiatives to address the legacy of slavery are entering a new era of political uncertainty.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of mule
Noun
  • The notion that Roper, as a young man, could have been a gunrunner in Colombia felt right to me.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 1 Feb. 2026
  • There are brash foreign fighters and humble food drivers and furtive gunrunners and ancient babushkas knitting camouflage ghillie suits in community gyms.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 23 Feb. 2023
Definition of gunrunner
Noun
  • Often, smugglers are only engaged in the industry out of financial necessity or coercion.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2026
  • One roofer paid smugglers $15,000, was deported or left three times, and paid $5,000 each return.
    — WCCO Staff, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of smuggler
Noun
  • Hundreds of runners in purple briefs took to the streets of Johannesburg last Friday to raise awareness of prostate cancer.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Jackson Chourio and Jake Bauers opened the bottom of the first with consecutive singles to put runners on the corners.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of runner
Noun
  • But his favorite piece isn’t something fans can get from bootleggers.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Artificial intelligence developers have borrowed the word to describe boiling down a big AI model into a smaller one—and lately the biggest AI companies say that rivals have been distilling like bootleggers.
    — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of bootlegger

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