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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

Similar respiratory structures are still found in aquatic chelicerates such as horseshoe crabs.

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 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

Without waiting for the Varangian to look at her, she flung the horseshoe with all her strength.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

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

Sigurd whipped the sword hard at Kin, and the horseshoes rocketed at him.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

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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