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But it makes little sense to think a law intended to bridle Wall Street also opened the gates to sports betting, Zaring said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Castro is accused of pulling on the bridle of one horse and grabbing the reins of another as mounted deputies moved toward a crowd of protesters to enforce dispersal orders on June 14.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2025

His first incarnation as Celtic manager rarely saw his team come off the bridle.

From BBC ● May 10, 2024

His eyes are full of tears as he holds the little riding crop in one hand and the bridle in the other.

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2023

When Edith-Anne announced that Rainbow needed a “new bridle and bit,” Penelope could have sworn it said “medicinal tar pit.”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

She refers to Isaac as “Latin-X,” to his disgust, and bridles when Alan casually complains that a student objected when he said a movie was “lame.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

The handlers on the ground let go of the bridles and the cows suddenly shoot forward.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

Think animal jewelry — bridles, straps and other harness parts adorned with eagle heads, rosettes, griffins, busts of Herakles, serpents and lions, often shaped from gold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025

American freedom is not absolute; no American is free from the Constitution’s bridles.

From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2024

Two of the creatures were fitted with bridles and stirrups of braided cord.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Blanche bridled at the suggestion, calling it “the most false statement I have ever heard in my life.”

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2026

Though he bridled against the genteel expectations of his upbringing, he was popular and effortlessly debonair.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

His staff always bridled at the idea of him as an understudy or apprentice, pointing to his decades of achievement, of carving out a distinct role.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2022

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose vision of humane communism liberated millions, bridled the global arms race and knocked down the walls dividing East and West, has died, according to Russian news agencies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022

I meet my sisters in front of Madoc’s stables, where silver-shod faerie horses are penned up beside enormous toads ready to be saddled and bridled and reindeer with broad antlers hung with bells.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Agency for International Development, some African governments are bridling at the conditions he has set for resuming funding to combat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

In her autobiography, Mrs. Robertson recalled bridling at staying at home and her husband’s refusal to help around the house.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2022

In her autobiography, Dede Robertson recalled bridling at staying at home and her husband’s refusal to help around the house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2022

European Union privacy and competition regulators have been far more aggressive than their U.S. counterparts in bridling the tech giants.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2021

Yossarian demanded, rising up slowly on one elbow with bridling hostility.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller