mongrel
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The mongrel called Mona escaped from its pet carrier on the way to a plane, running off across the runway in Buenos Aires, pursued by three vans.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
Soviet scientists picked Laika, a stray mongrel found on the cold streets of Moscow.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2022
“Like many of us, I’m a mongrel, a hybrid, made up of many things,” she writes in the title essay.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2020
Disliking the show, wrote New York Times reviewer Clive Barnes, “would be tantamount to disliking motherhood, peanut butter, friendly mongrel dogs and nostalgia.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2019
When Khubchand, his beloved, blind, bald, incontinent seventeen-year-old mongrel decided to stage a miserable, long- drawn-out death, Estha nursed him through his final ordeal as though his own life somehow depended on it.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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