dog
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The 22-year-old - a dog groomer by trade - scored two tries against Wales, the second of which went viral on social media after she ran 107 metres to score it.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
The 20-year-old social media star reportedly arrived on Thursday at the courthouse in Orleans, Mass., walking a dog that barked at reporters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Get hooked on some sports gossip: In the dog days of the NFL season, we need something to look forward to.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026
“Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray soda with a crunchy delicatessen hot dog and round potato knish. Runner up: anything with a chocolate egg cream made with whole milk and Fox’s U-Bet syrup.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
That next year I’ll be even busier and have even less time to give to a dog.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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Tairine, who sells hot dogs, used to abstain from voting, even though - as voting is compulsory in Brazil - not going to the polls incurs a fine.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
As cars pulled up to the chapel, the sound of Father Roy Snipes' barking dogs signalled his arrival.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
With nearly 90% of the military’s working dogs purchased from overseas, Warhound also wants to increase the number of domestically sourced working dogs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Instead, he let Slim Shady learn a hard lesson that true southerners know: You lay down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
Moose are large, and essentially insane with an almost pathological hatred of the dogs, the sled, the musher, trees, trains, cars, and everything else as near as I can figure.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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Accusations of a lack of passion, desire and intensity have dogged United all season, having won just two of their matches in all competitions.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Still, the president has shown a dogged willingness to try, try again.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026
The Games in Aichi-Nagoya, which close later Sunday, have been dogged by organisational issues over accommodation and transport.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
And traders said that with French debt difficult to trade, investors sold the bonds of Italy and Greece, resurrecting fears that the debt problems that dogged the region last decade could return.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
He plodded along the zig-zagging path through the forest listlessly, dogged with thirst and feeling almost too exhausted to go on.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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It took one look for people to start dogging the company out for its unreadability.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
The broader question of whether eye-watering AI spending will ever pay off is also dogging Meta.
From Barron's ● May 28, 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
“One of the core issues” dogging Microsoft investors, according to Morgan Stanley’s Keith Weiss, is that spending came in higher than expected while Azure has been growing “maybe” a bit slower than hoped.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 28, 2026
If she must have one of the Kingsguard dogging her steps, Sansa preferred that it be him.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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