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horseshoe

[hawrs-shoo, hawrsh-] / ˈhɔrsˌʃu, ˈhɔrʃ- /


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Plus, immigration’s economic impact, Russia’s diesel-export ban and horseshoe theory in Michigan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

I can already imagine it: point your phone at a package of ground beef and wait while a tiny animated horseshoe spins on the screen.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

The work was made possible by the first laboratory-grown lung cell line developed from the greater horseshoe bat.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026

He learned his birth mother was buried in a pauper’s grave at the Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Santa Rosa, with “nothing to mark her grave but an upside-down horseshoe that has her name in it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

He laid the brace down on the counter, picked up a small paper sack, and filled it about half-full of horseshoe nails.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

How close is good enough for horseshoes, hand grenades and constitutional law under Bruen?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

Beyoncé's rodeo rumbled into London, bringing with it every country cliché you could think of - cowboy hats, horseshoes, tassels and even a gold mechanical bull.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2025

In addition to horse skulls and skeletons, the team found horseshoes.

From NewsForKids.net ● Feb. 19, 2024

Such candies were first available in shapes like baseballs, horseshoes, and watches.

From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2024

A large furnace and bellows were set up at the far end of the room, complete with stacks of horseshoes and bits of iron.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

But will it be as intimidating as the cauldron created by the almost 5,000-seat stand that horseshoed the first tee at Rome in 2023?

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025

In both cases, he has accidentally horseshoed himself into spectacularly ill-informed opinions that nonetheless capture something of the contemporary zeitgeist.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2024

A second story in the Beta building — business staffers on one side, engineers on the other — is horseshoed around a hangar beneath, where multiple aircraft sit in various stages of tinkering.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2022

The three-times European Ryder Cup member missed the chance for a “mulligan” — golf terminology for a free shot — when his short bogey putt horseshoed around the hole and hit his foot.

From Reuters ● Oct. 13, 2019

Unfortunately for the 23-year-old from Forest, Va., his ball caught the left lip and horseshoed out, leaving the crowd stunned at the shockingly outcome.

From Golf Digest ● May 28, 2019

Brunner’s sister, Summer Raffo, was driving along Highway 530, on her way to a horseshoeing job.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2022

That’s out of this world, but Casey passes up the opportunity to salvage the half, his putt horseshoeing out.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2021

“There is being in running shape and there is being in horseshoeing shape,” she said.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 20, 2015

While Deborah was pregnant we lived in South Carolina so that I could go to horseshoeing school and then back to Atlanta for the birth.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2013

Her husband saved up his horseshoeing money and bought her freedom right after they were married.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson




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