lariat
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This appearance has led to them being named "lariat introns."
From Science Daily • May 10, 2024
A Reuters video showed a Border Patrol agent using what the news agency described as a lariat to whip at a Haitian migrant trying to enter the United States from Mexico.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2021
A U.S. law enforcement officer on horseback wielded what appeared to be a lariat, whipping it close to the face of a man wading in the Rio Grande carrying a plastic bag of food.
From Reuters • Sep. 20, 2021
At one point, he displayed his dissatisfaction with a floor design on the concourse — a rope encircling what appears to be a starburst — by sending the architects a lariat for guidance.
From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2020
Presently a hulking, crazy-eyed man toting a stiff lariat appeared on the scene.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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