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horseshoe

[hawrs-shoo, hawrsh-] / ˈhɔrsˌʃu, ˈhɔrʃ- /


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Plus, immigration’s economic impact, Russia’s diesel-export ban and horseshoe theory in Michigan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

I can already imagine it: point your phone at a package of ground beef and wait while a tiny animated horseshoe spins on the screen.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

It would offer travelers and employees an alternative to getting to and from the airport by vehicle and finally establish a direct airport connection to Metro trains that would ease congestion at the airport horseshoe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

The diplomats, Sherman explained, sat in a horseshoe formation and spoke one by one.

From Slate ● May 1, 2026

If you ever visit Lanternwood, odds are you’ll get stuck behind Old Joe driving his tractor down High Street, chugging from one end of the horseshoe to the other.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

How close is good enough for horseshoes, hand grenades and constitutional law under Bruen?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

Beyoncé's rodeo rumbled into London, bringing with it every country cliché you could think of - cowboy hats, horseshoes, tassels and even a gold mechanical bull.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2025

There’s a gentle curve to the bridge at the front of the frames and what almost looks like horseshoes on the hinges that connect the temples to the lenses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

In addition to horse skulls and skeletons, the team found horseshoes.

From NewsForKids.net ● Feb. 19, 2024

He was a farrier, a certified maker of horseshoes, and his trailer carried all the tools of his trade, including nearly one thousand pounds of horseshoes, a gas forge, and a 150-pound anvil.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

In both cases, he has accidentally horseshoed himself into spectacularly ill-informed opinions that nonetheless capture something of the contemporary zeitgeist.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2024

Schauffele, who led overnight and for much of the final round, failed with his 60-footer, while US Open champion Clark's 17-footer horseshoed around the hole.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2024

A second story in the Beta building — business staffers on one side, engineers on the other — is horseshoed around a hangar beneath, where multiple aircraft sit in various stages of tinkering.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2022

During the final round of the SAS Championship, Parnevik missed a short bogey putt that horseshoed around the hole and ultimately hit his foot.

From Golf Digest ● Oct. 15, 2019

The three-times European Ryder Cup member missed the chance for a “mulligan” — golf terminology for a free shot — when his short bogey putt horseshoed around the hole and hit his foot.

From Reuters ● Oct. 13, 2019

She sent Benedict Cumberbatch — who stars as Phil, a vicious, hypermasculine rancher — to Montana as well, to learn roping, riding, horseshoeing, whittling, banjo and bull-calf castration.

From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021

That’s out of this world, but Casey passes up the opportunity to salvage the half, his putt horseshoeing out.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2021

Raffo was driving on Highway 530 to a horseshoeing job when the slide hit.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2019

“There is being in running shape and there is being in horseshoeing shape,” she said.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 20, 2015

Her husband saved up his horseshoeing money and bought her freedom right after they were married.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson




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