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Recent Examples of cantle
Among the machinery are some pieces of equipment that cannot be found anywhere else, such as the cantle disher, which was used to shape the rear part of each saddletree.
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Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 11 July 2024
Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 11 July 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cantle
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The generals have been internationally isolated since the takeover and Myanmar's economy and basic services, including healthcare, have been reduced to tatters amid the strife.—
Reuters,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2025
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Rourke himself approached the street at this hour in suave array and manic tatters.—
Kevin Barry,
Harper's Magazine,
2 July 2024
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In addition to the atlatl, the archaeologists also found a fragment of a boomerang, long wooden tips that might have been used to deliver poison to prey, and wooden darts and stone tips.—
Livia Albeck-Ripka,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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The fragments revealed are so frustrating that anyone needing real medical attention should probably steer clear of Maguire.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
3 Apr. 2025
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Mazzoli created a lush score that was alternately sweeping or intimate, sensuous or mystical, yet with a distinctive sound that was her own weaving a thread through the piece.—
Janelle Gelfand,
Cincinnati.com,
19 July 2017
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This is why the war stories of Tom Clancy are such convincing and moving pieces of fiction.—
Janine Barchas,
Washington Post,
18 July 2017
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Full Story Tax Watch Senate budget calls for fraction of cuts sought by House The Senate voted Thursday to advance its budget resolution, setting up a weekend vote for the upper chamber’s precursor bill for Republicans’ mainline tax cut and spending legislation.—
Aris Folley,
The Hill,
4 Apr. 2025
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The Chinese tariffs that will pummel soybeans, the primary aircraft category, the primary category for vaccines, plasma and blood fractions, cotton and grain sorghum.—
Ken Roberts,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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To put it more directly: Iowa State, Colorado and Arizona better leave no shred of doubt in the remaining weeks of Big 12 play and the conference tournament to have a shot at March Madness.—
Mark Schindler,
The Athletic,
19 Feb. 2025
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Trump’s contrived veneer is being ripped away to reveal an immoral, mendacious, transactional opportunist, without a shred of loyalty to anyone or anything but himself.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Mar. 2025
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Everybody was a little bit like at the end of summer camp, although a bit too grown up for this to be true.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
7 Apr. 2025
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Yet the other major mystery of the series, surrounding the possible identity of Ruby Sunday’s mother, felt a little bit anticlimactic when she was unveiled, even though the thought process behind that storyline was touching.—
Scott Bryan,
Variety,
7 Apr. 2025
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In the cave site on northern Malta, scientists found trace remnants of the roasted carcasses of red deer, tortoises and birds, as well as the remains of the marine life that once swarmed around Malta.—
Saul Elbein,
The Hill,
9 Apr. 2025
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This image, captured by a South African radio telescope named MeerKAT, also shows the ghostly, bubble-like remnants of supernovas that exploded over millennia.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
8 Apr. 2025
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That section’s willingness to hush itself contrasted mightily with the inability of the trumpets and trombones to do the same.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
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These solutions ensure that even the busiest store sections remain well-stocked and operationally efficient without adding to employee workload.—
Samuel Mueller,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Cantle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cantle. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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