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hare

[hair] / hɛər /
NOUN
rabbitlike animal
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The BBC contacted members of the Country Land and Business Association, which represents 30,000 rural landowners and businesses in England and Wales, to ask about their experiences with hare coursing.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

Wiltshire farmer David Lemon showed us his 3,000-acre farm, where hare coursers have previously torn up the fields with miles of tyre tracks.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

The local gamekeeper had stopped the hare coursers three or four times.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

Forbes calls that “the tortoise and hare approach.”

From Barron's Jun. 2, 2026

“Oh, darling, you’re all right!” cried the mother hare, pulling her daughter close.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

As Apple plays the tortoise role—slow and steady wins the race—the sprint between the two hares is what’s captivating investors.

From Barron's Nov. 26, 2025

Musk oxen and snowshoe hares inhabit the base perimeter.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 12, 2025

In some cases, however, the practice is being "exploited as a smokescreen to cruelly kill foxes and hares", a spokesperson for Defra added.

From BBC Dec. 26, 2024

While there are conflicting accounts for the origins and symbolism of the Easter Bunny, brown hares were common in mainland Europe long before rabbits -- originating from the Iberian Peninsula -- became popular.

From Science Daily Mar. 20, 2024

“C’m’ere, you dreadful little rogue! I’ve got the very thing for you. This is a leveret dagger. All young hares carry one. Here, let’s try it on you for size, young buccaneer, what, what!”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Kohli pushed, prodded and whipped the ball into gaps, then hared between the wickets.

From BBC Nov. 5, 2023

He picked himself up and hared off in pursuit of Carapaz, bashing on his displaced left-brake lever as he descended, trying to hammer it back straight on his handlebars.

From Washington Post Sep. 17, 2020

Dickson reminds us that when Wen Jiabao, then China’s premier, came to England in 2011, he flew first to a small airport outside Birmingham and hared off to Stratford to pay homage.

From New York Times Jun. 1, 2016

Darmian hared down the right and pinged the ball across the face of goal!

From The Guardian Nov. 25, 2015

Sperretooul Sircles is held nitely & 4 or 5 long hared fellers has settled here and gone into the Sperret biznis excloosively.

From The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 1: Essays, Sketches, and Letters by Ward, Artemus

A couple of minutes in, Kyogo Furuhashi went haring away into space deep in the Aberdeen half, the inexperienced goalkeeper Ross Doohan his only obstacle to a possible opener.

From BBC Dec. 4, 2024

Those jurors will be taken to Carroll County from that county for the trial, which is scheduled for March but unlikely to occur before the fall, Gull said at the haring.

From Seattle Times Jan. 23, 2023

A final defender comes haring across, all pumping thighs and straining arms.

From BBC Apr. 12, 2022

The blue shirts come haring on, leaping and jumping, eyes wide, spooked by their own moment of history.

From The Guardian May 7, 2020

Merlyn said, “I beg your pardon. I am not haring a very good day today, and there it is.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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