horn
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"The bison hooked him with his left horn on his hip and tossed him in the air," Mike Macleod, who recorded the incident, told the Cowboy State Daily, a local paper.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
AFP reviewed examples offering everything from chimpanzees intended as pets to rhino horn for traditional medicine and pangolins for consumption.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
Two weeks after Good’s murder, he drove around his neighborhood honking his horn to alert his community to ICE’s presence.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
It’s hard to see anyone but the most rabid Wings fan interested in, say, guitarist Laurence Juber’s amp or similar artifacts from the horn section, but on the other hand, this is a Wings retrospective.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
She sticks a funny plunger into the end of the horn.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
The bone has short projections extending outward that resemble horns, and it lacks a ventral median groove.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
Percussion underneath, horns above, their rendition of “Tequila!” with a ska spirit.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
They’re also huge — females can exceed 800 pounds and males 1,500 or more — with pointy horns and protective instincts, especially around the young.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
She laughs off critics who post pictures of her with devil horns, saying she’s really just a PTA mom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Slop poked me awake with his deer horns.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
The park, a one-hour bush-plane flight from Anchorage, is known for its abundance of brown bears, horned puffins and critically endangered beluga whales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Tom Berendsen, managing director of production company Business/Club, this year made a Super Bowl advert for Skittles starring Elijah Wood, surreally, as a magical horned woodland creature.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Triceratops and other horned dinosaurs had exceptionally large nasal cavities compared to most animals.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2026
There's a bone-white lobster, suctioned up for examination at the surface, and a horned sea cucumber whose mast-like spikes collapse into black spaghetti when it arrives on the ship.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
It was tall and spidery, horned and fanged and furred.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
Using a device to achieve the same effect was unfairly horning in on AT&T property.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
This project from producer-arrangers Brad Benedict and Mark Fontana could be accused of horning in on Brian Setzer’s retro rockabilly swing slant on the holidays if the results weren’t so much sheer fun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2016
His talent for horning in on history did not fail him.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2013
It made a hollow, horning sound – F sharp.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2013
And he did not want Maya-Jade horning in.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
