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horseshoe

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


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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

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

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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