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Recent Examples of dog
Noun
Police brought in hundreds of law enforcement personnel with dogs, armored carriers, horses and helicopters that circled overhead. Maryclaire Dale, Marc Levy and Michael Rubinkam, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023 Responding officers found the dog, and advised the owner to take the dog in. cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
Verb
By emphasizing its protagonist’s emotional complexity, the show avoids the kind of wheel-spinning narrative bloat that has dogged each of the Marvel projects on Netflix. Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2025 Disney’s new live-action Snow White, dogged by controversy after controversy, must have been cursed at birth by a wicked fairy (oops, wait, wrong fairy tale). Constance Grady, Vox, 21 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dog
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dog
Noun
  • And, seeing the pair playing, another puppy becomes interested in the game, too, and starts jumping around with them.
    Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
  • In January, Raoul’s office charged a Round Lake man with multiple felonies for allegedly orchestrating an internet scam that advertised puppies for sale to lure victims.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The Cultural Toll The U.S. may still be the ultimate prize, but for many international artists and their teams, the cost of chasing it is starting to outweigh the payoff.
    Alex Ashley, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Catch up on the latest energy news: PRO: To chase or not to chase?
    Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Progressive advocates in Massachusetts have been hounding legislators to do something about the Trump administration’s decisions to slash federal funding for a variety of sectors in the state.
    Chris Van Buskirk, Boston Herald, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The book is a coming-of-age tale about a music obsessive who traversed the big city, digging through crates, hounding heroes like DJ Stretch Armstrong, and developing a distinct style over the course of countless late-night gigs.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But this Ron Howard was an alternate universe version of Ron Howard, who instead of being notoriously nice, is sort of a jerk.
    Esther Zuckerman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Someone actually just said to me that all the men in the book are jerks.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • From there, New York City sleuths tracked the cord brand to a local wholesaler, who had records of selling a quantity of it to a Manhattan upholsterer the day before the murder.
    Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Guido Vianello Fight Card Results Microsoft Warns 240 Million Windows Users—Stop Using Your PC ‘NYT Mini’ Clues And Answers For Saturday, April 5 Price-Fundamentals Gap JPMorgan analysts have been tracking Tesla’s price-fundamentals gap for over a decade.
    Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The Defender’s large footprint is justified by its considerable luggage capacity, but at the end of the day, the challenges of needling the 110 through narrow roadways and squeezing it into tight parking spots can become a chore.
    Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Fritz revved the engine, a desperate, needling whine, and the vessel lurched down the airstrip, the chute billowing awake behind him.
    Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Named Lija, the wary but winsome mutt — in fact played by the filmmaker’s own pet — is snappish and defensive when her wounds are first treated, only to slowly relent and relax in the face of genuine tenderness.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Mushers gather at trailheads and parking lots for long weekends of racing, with world-champion sprinters (often huge, muscular pointers with legs a mile long) competing alongside teams of purebred Siberians and assorted mutts.
    Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Caro Stowell of Thomasville was dressed up like a clown.
    Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025
  • The final moments of the trailer revealed a terrifying figure hiding deep in the woods, one that looked overwhelmingly like a female clown.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 2 Apr. 2025

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“Dog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dog. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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