horseshoe
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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
Bill Hays—taut, with a neatly trimmed gray horseshoe hairline—sat behind the counter and immediately clocked me as a journalist, not some casual shopper.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
There’s a friendship bracelet from a volunteer trip to Haiti, a horseshoe found on a Grand Canyon trail and antique lace from a market in Bruges, Belgium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
He learned his birth mother was buried in a pauper’s grave at the Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Santa Rosa, with “nothing to mark her grave but an upside-down horseshoe that has her name in it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Just then, two boys swim over to it, and the shorter one catches the horseshoe crab and holds it up.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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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
At Alisal Ranch in Solvang, kids can hang out at the bar and paint horseshoes or take a riding lesson.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025
In addition to horse skulls and skeletons, the team found horseshoes.
From NewsForKids.net ● Feb. 19, 2024
Taran wanted to make a sword; but Coll, charged with the practical side of his education, decided on horseshoes.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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Towering stands horseshoed around the opener at Marco Simone Country Club, creating a cauldron that the American players seemed to struggle with, and they did not win that hole in the opening 12 matches.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025
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
At the Masters, he horseshoed short putts to miss the cut while Tiger Woods ground out a limping resurgence on his surgically repaired leg.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2023
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
There was a putt on the 16th hole that horseshoed out of the hole.
From Golf Digest ● May 15, 2012
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
While Deborah was pregnant we lived in South Carolina so that I could go to horseshoeing school and then back to Atlanta for the birth.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2013
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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