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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Coniferous forests, often hunting by day for mammals as large as squirrels and lemmings.
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His shoulders were shaking, and tears were scrambling down his crumpled cheeks like lemmings.
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I once saw a cartoon which pictured hundreds of lemmings throwing themselves off a cliff and drowning in the water below.
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Investors are not children or lemmings.
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John Giacobbi sums it up quite nicely when he portrays the average A&Rs as narrow-minded lemmings worried about job security.
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The tundra is widely grazed by mammals, especially voles and lemmings that burrow in the undergrowth.
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Tundra and high northern moorland, feeding mainly on lemmings and birds the size of Ptarmigan and Oystercatcher.