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"We are very proud of our heritage and of the fact there is a dog that was bred here and named after the park - it's amazing it has gone on to win Crufts."
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
From a family that has bred Bernese Mountain dogs near Bologna in northern Italy for decades, Fasso has been coming to Crufts since the mid-2010s, witnessing its popularity grow internationally.
From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026
And he’s Southern California born and bred, the product of esteemed diamond factory Harvard-Westlake High.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026
Few 20th-century writers bred as many imitators as Ernest Hemingway, but his followers rarely matched the subtleties of his deceptively simple style.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
‘But these creatures of Isengard, these half-orcs and goblin-men that the foul craft of Saruman has bred, they will not quail at the sun,’ said Gamling.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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