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horseshoe

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


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There’s a friendship bracelet from a volunteer trip to Haiti, a horseshoe found on a Grand Canyon trail and antique lace from a market in Bruges, Belgium.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 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

"We're constantly afraid," she told AFP outside her front door, above which hung a horseshoe symbolising good luck.

From Barron's Jun. 4, 2026

The diplomats, Sherman explained, sat in a horseshoe formation and spoke one by one.

From Slate May 1, 2026

We passed the horseshoe game, which Harry was supervising.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

One invented the mechanical reaper, another a machine for the mass production of horseshoes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 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

Sigurd whipped the sword hard at Kin, and the horseshoes rocketed at him.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

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

There was a putt on the 16th hole that horseshoed out of the hole.

From Golf Digest May 15, 2012

She was driving on Highway 530, headed to a horseshoeing appointment, when the slide hit.

From Seattle Times Mar. 17, 2024

She sent Benedict Cumberbatch — who stars as Phil, a vicious, hypermasculine rancher — to Montana as well, to learn roping, riding, horseshoeing, whittling, banjo and bull-calf castration.

From New York Times Nov. 16, 2021

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

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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