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hound

[hound] / haʊnd /




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"Sophie thought she'd read the Daily Mail one day and the first comment was: 'Why does she look like an Afghan hound?'"

From BBC • Apr. 4, 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

Stuart said that once her son sent the money, the scammers “continued to hound him.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2025

I saw right away that if I didn’t do something the monkeys were surely going to have a hound dog for breakfast.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls




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