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[hound] / haʊnd /




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“I didn’t know he was going to be this good,” Stefon Diggs admitted after the romp over the basset hound Jets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

Among typical dog breeds, the great Anglo-French tricolor hound had the strongest signal at 4.7 to 5.7 percent, followed by the Shiloh shepherd at 2.7 percent.

From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2025

The dog, Apollo, is a pickup truck of a hound, and Iris barely has any space for him in her cramped New York City apartment.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2025

Miuccia, who is owned by Enrico De Gaspari, was the winner of the hound group earlier in the show, and beat the winners of six other groups to win the top prize.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2025

He directed a truck to bring a big, live trap to within about three hundred feet of the dead hound, which was then dragged across the ground and put into the trap.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall




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