horse-trade
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“A Rocky Mountain trade chain had carried horses to the Northwestern Plains by the 1730s. … The horse trade ignited a technological revolution that reconfigured several Indigenous worlds within a generation.”
From Science Magazine • Mar. 29, 2023
Then, over the weekend, lawmakers agreed to an even more revealing horse trade.
From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2020
Some of the most heavily fished species are classified as threatened with extinction, but the sea horse trade, like everything else I’d seen in this market, is legal.
From Slate • Nov. 9, 2018
The horse trade has its ups and downs – as I write this, it’s down, the worst in my lifetime.
From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2018
Even in a horse trade each owner expects to be benefited by the exchange; and only a jockey seeks that benefit in taking advantage of his neighbor's ignorance or inexperience.
From Rural Health and Welfare by Fairchild, George Thompson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
