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paddock

[pad-uhk] / ˈpæd ək /
NOUN
corral
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NOUN
racetrack
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Carlyle invites existing and potential clients to daylong gatherings that include meeting the drivers and a tour of the F1 garage and paddock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

F1 was so determined for it to become a success that it invested $500m in buying a plot of land on which it constructed a new pit building and paddock.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Exploiting a scheduling quirk—Singapore’s 8 p.m. race typically follows a slate of afternoon starts in Europe—the entire paddock just lives in an alternate, nocturnal universe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Now the constant rumble of construction machinery has been replaced by a steady stream of vans and golf carts ferrying people to and from the paddock for this weekend's races.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

As he stood in the paddock, a reporter’s voice sang out from the crowd.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

A big harvest means large amounts of grain spilt in the paddocks during the processing of crops, leading to an easily accessible and much-loved food source for mice.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

His rural property, in the foothills of the San Rafael Mountains, is surrounded by horse paddocks and gnarled live oaks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2025

In Kentucky, Silver Charm’s daily routine is simple: He poses for tour group photos and mingles with neighbors in adjoining paddocks after being let out into his football field-sized paddock early in the morning.

From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2024

Visual proof came with the drive passing by green fields and paddocks, affording glimpses of some of the backlot's many equine neighbors.

From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2023

Looking more like a restaurant maitre d’ than a cowboy, Joel opened the gate between the two paddocks.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

A sound like "Goood!" came from the paddocked bull.

From Thy Rocks and Rills by Robert E. Gilbert

I've got the car paddocked down near the reserve.

From The Lost Valley by James Morgan Walsh

Shakespeare himself would have been commonplace had he been paddocked in a thinly shaven vocabulary, and Phidias, had he worked in wax, only a more inspired Mrs. Jarley.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick

We had a beautiful, still morning for our ride, and reached the station—a shed standing out on the plain—in time to see our horses safely paddocked before the train started for Christchurch.

From Station Life in New Zealand by Lady (Mary Anne) Barker

Wild and shy, as paddocked merinos always are, these had withdrawn to the quietest places they could find, and were there making the best of a bad job.

From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy


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