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mongrel

[muhng-gruhl, mong-] / ˈmʌŋ grəl, ˈmɒŋ- /
NOUN
animal of mixed background
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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

England will need their inner mongrel in Australia, Stokes included.

From BBC • Jul. 15, 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

If our house was a dog it would be a rough little mongrel of a thing—not big, not fancy, not pretty.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge




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