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[dawg, dog] / dɔg, dɒg /




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So much for the dog days of summer!

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

To pay for extra shows, a number of Styles’ most committed fans are taking on side gigs—like dog walking or babysitting—on top of their 9-to-5 jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

“At that time, I saw a gap that needed to be filled in the market,” Graves, who named the restaurant after his dog, told me.

From Slate Aug. 24, 2026

To stay calm in the queue Lyubov is stroking her pet dog Agatha.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

However hard the dog tried to bound away over the snow and escape, Marlene kept after him.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

He has written about mahjong, ugly dogs, tech bros attending etiquette school, and how he almost lost his mind drinking energy drinks.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

“I have the best job in the world,” says John Highland, former veterinary technician and now one of the ranch’s animal care specialists, as the dogs stream into Adventureland.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

I learned that he’s a proud father of two boys and a girl, and two dogs named Nipsey and Scrap, whom he affectionately calls his “babies.”

From Slate Aug. 20, 2026

Unitree's robot dogs start at $2,700, a fraction of the roughly $70,000 price tag for Boston Dynamics' four-legged device, Spot.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Musing, lost in the scene, I did not notice that the dogs were slowing and had stopped until my stomach rammed into the handlebar of the sled.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

But the boyhood trauma of losing his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, has dogged much of his life.

From Barron's Aug. 23, 2026

While artificial-intelligence disruption fears have dogged the sector this year, investors seem to be coming around to the view that some software-as-a-service companies will hold up better than others in the AI era.

From MarketWatch Aug. 19, 2026

Japan's defence minister paid his respects Saturday at a shrine honouring the country's war dead that has long dogged Tokyo's relations with its Asian neighbours, but Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stayed away.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

The substantial commitment underscores GM’s push to avoid a repeat of the severe shortages that have dogged the industry in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

With the obsessive attention to detail that characterized his brand of dogged genius, Rosellini purged his life of all but the most primitive tools, which he fashioned from native materials with his own hands.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

It took one look for people to start dogging the company out for its unreadability.

From Slate Aug. 21, 2026

Another question dogging Nvidia has been whether it will lose its dominance as companies shift from training AI models toward inference—the process of running the models.

From Barron's Jun. 23, 2026

Materne noted that skepticism of Microsoft’s AI strategy is another factor dogging the stock.

From MarketWatch Mar. 25, 2026

The bottom line is that the questions dogging the private-asset industry are bigger than just what is going to happen to business software.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 25, 2026

Nick and Trip played high, and I kept dogging Ice.

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers




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