saddle
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Investors aren’t bailing on the stock market, despite an ugly selloff in technology names this week that helped to saddle the S&P 500 with its worst weekly showing in months.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026
The researchers identified a particularly important region of this mathematical landscape called the Cordey saddle.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
Our example came ready to fish, with an icebox mounted behind the tandem-plus saddle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
They’ve made clear to city officials they don’t appreciate attempts to saddle them with additional duties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Ellidyr, leaning from the saddle, seized Taran by the front of the jacket.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
He has the chance to change that as he saddles up with a familiar partner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
That involves treating the surface of the ball with the same oil that’s used on horse saddles, then in succession leather balm, conditioner, mud, more conditioner, and a thorough brushing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2024
You could see details in saddles and costumes, and the building were still extant.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2024
Trainer Todd Pletcher, who saddles Fierceness, is in the derby for the 24th year and it never gets old.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2024
From small clearings, now, they could see in the distance the rocky peaks rising above the Little Baldy Bear Lakes; some saddles between peaks still carried slim patches of snow.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
But his little quip came saddled with a layer of uncomfortable truth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Even so, airlines themselves are furious that they have been saddled with a bill of millions of pounds.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
At 11 p.m. on Friday night, I saddled up and rode north on Highway 1.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
But that officer’s mission was saddled with bureaucratic ambiguity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
He saw the Colonel, went home for his boots and spurs, then took out Goblin and saddled him.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
The rise in rates is saddling the government with higher costs just as it needs to refinance a mountain of debt borrowed during the era of ultralow interest rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Oldfield says: "How do we shore the business up into a place that's right for them to come into without saddling them with a lot of debt?"
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
As a result, many resort to Medi-Cal, saddling the state with the healthcare costs instead of employers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
What happens next may hit everyone who dreams of saddling a dragon squarely in the chest.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
Then I saw her and Little Arliss come past the door, heading for where I could hear her grandpa saddling his horse.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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