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puma

noun

ˈpü-mə

Definition of puma

as in panther

a large tawny cat of the wild adult pumas can sometimes weigh over 200 pounds

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Recent Examples of puma The puma was fitted with a GPS-tracking collar as part of a University of California, Santa Cruz study, loaded onto a crate and taken to a spot in the Santa Cruz Mountains where it was released, the CDFW said. — Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 16 June 2026 Today, more than 900 sites use the platform across six continents and 90 countries, deploying it to track everything from pumas in Chile to chimpanzees in Rwandan rainforests. — Alexandra Kirkman, Fortune, 18 May 2026 Thousands of Patagonian penguins are being killed by pumas, though many without being eaten. — Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026 Animal rights activists questioned whether the wolf could survive outside the zoo and also worried it might be killed during capture, something that happened to a puma that escaped from the same zoo in 2018. — ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for puma

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Locals were regaled with other stories of bears, panthers and other game killed where now there were houses and farms.

— Paul Schullery, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2026
Originally designed in the 1980s, the watch echoes the fluid movements of the panther thanks to an ultra-flexible structure.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2026

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The tragic ending of the young puma in San Dimas comes three months after a year-old female cougar and a 6-month-old male mountain lion were fatally struck by vehicles.

— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
New large-scale research shows that the presence of mountain lions, also known as pumas or cougars, can drastically decrease the number of potentially deadly collisions between deer and vehicles by changing the behavior of their prey.

— Gennaro Tomma, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2026

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