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[haund] / haʊnd /




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After trawling through dozens of applications, the hunt is over: an Australian animal welfare group has found a successor to a hero hound credited with saving more than 100 koalas from fires.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Still, some complained Bycel was a publicity hound, and he made powerful enemies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

I am an avowed condiment hound, especially when two sauces are doing different jobs.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

Stacey lives in Brooklyn with her husband and hound dog.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

I was scared, too, and I didn’t want a hound dog and a rope wound around my legs if I decided to have a runaway.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Trail hunting was introduced after the Hunting Act 2004 as an alternative to hounds chasing foxes and involves using an animal-scented rag.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

From paw prints in Mesopotamian pavement to hunting hounds in Renaissance sculpture, dogs have long featured in art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

She made the ferry journey over to England with a fellow Dutch breeder friend and seven pooches between them -- three of them Swedish Vallhunds and four other hounds.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

Meanwhile, a runaway slave shows up out back, pursued by hounds, having heard that the Van Lew house is the place to run for help.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

Kate might be clever and quick as a fox, but she was a weary fox now, and one among hounds.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

But she was the one that the paparazzi hounded most fiercely, feeding malicious tabloid coverage focused on her body image and weight.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

He said Arday felt "hounded" and the relentless media coverage had been "a bloodsport".

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

His Othello is hounded into a betrayal of his probity and hard-earned honor not just by the villainy of Iago but by the demons of his past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

“She was just hounded and just critiqued with terrible jokes,” Perry said, but she didn’t back down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

The children who hounded us daily for money and food weren’t dim-witted beggars; they were accustomed to the distribution of excess, and couldn’t fathom why we held ourselves apart.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Her only sin was being right too early and too often — and the world never stopped hounding her for it.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

Spitzer set the mold for the modern, powerful state attorney general by ruthlessly hounding Wall Street.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

To Siebel Newsom, the critiques of her work and the federal probe are part of a broader hounding of women who enter the public sphere.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

Etzebeth continued to loom large over Van Poortvliet, hounding the Leicester nine and disrupting England's plans to exit their own territory.

From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2024

“I’m impressed you got up here so quickly—and without a pack of court ladies hounding after you. Perhaps you should try your hand at being an assassin.”

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas




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