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[hound] / haʊnd /




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For years, tourists have visited a village hidden in the Welsh mountains of Eryri for its breathtaking beauty and a grave commemorating a faithful hound slain by his master in the 13th Century.

From BBC Jun. 10, 2026

He once described himself as “a basset hound with a 25-watt personality.”

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 17, 2025

Among typical dog breeds, the great Anglo-French tricolor hound had the strongest signal at 4.7 to 5.7 percent, followed by the Shiloh shepherd at 2.7 percent.

From Science Daily Nov. 29, 2025

This was not the first time in my uncle’s 30-year incarceration that we’ve had to hound the Florida Department of Corrections for answers about his well-being.

From Salon Aug. 17, 2025

Sitting high on the spring seat with my grandpa and my lop-eared hound, no boy could have been happier.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Margaret Free was walking three Basset hounds — Bob, Doris and Ruth.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 20, 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

With a major role in Josh Safdie’s madcap ping-pong riot, “Marty Supreme,” Paltrow is rounding out the year with a bang, earning her last laugh against gossip hounds and Goop critics.

From Salon Dec. 22, 2025

The bar was about half full with fellow deal hounds, and the vibes screamed peak elder-millennial: 6 p.m. dinner with Ashanti and Usher on the speakers.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 6, 2025

Dracaenae and Laestrygonians, monsters and half-bloods, hell hounds, harpies, and other things I couldn’t even name.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan

Brunson, hounded mercilessly by the Spurs, didn't make a basket until the second quarter.

From Barron's Jun. 11, 2026

It’s the only place now, she says, where she can return without being hounded.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 15, 2026

For performing this service, Amamiya was hounded off the Internet.

From Salon Mar. 1, 2026

Sir Ed welcomed the announcement but warned "many carers face many more months of being hounded, with changes not due to come into force for another year".

From BBC Nov. 25, 2025

After that, hounded by what happened in a Philippine jungle and the ghosts of a thousand men who didn’t escape it, his steadfast disdain for cowardice turned to obsession.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

The year before, billionaire Bill Ackman was invited for a friendly Q&A after hounding Harvard’s president out of office, and grievance-fueled media entrepreneur Bari Weiss presented a rallying plug for her Substack.

From Slate May 8, 2026

His creditors and vendors—such as cell-tower builders—are hounding him for repayment, and he should have to honor his debts.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 2026

The inquest heard sections of the media had been "hounding" the presenter over the alleged assault of Lewis Burton, which she denied.

From BBC Feb. 15, 2025

There’s very little she says in “Chimp Crazy” to the lawyers and judges hounding that’s true, but the biggest whoppers she tells highlight her self-delusion.

From Salon Aug. 18, 2024

Some more of Darrell’s friends from the basketball team join us as we walk, and he gets too distracted to keep hounding me about it—but he might as well have kept teasing me.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender




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