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Recent Examples of horseback
Horseback riders share the trails with hikers at Brett Woods, a 185-acre conservation area.
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Lisa Prevost, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2017
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Lisa Prevost, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for horseback
Adjective
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Charlotte put on a vintage Roberto Cavalli party dress from Happy Isles—but only for 15 minutes, as the bride and groom decided to go for an impromptu midnight swim.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
17 Jan. 2025
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Everett Collection Members of an impromptu dance mob taunt Laura Dern in Inland Empire (2006).—
Maya Ibbitson,
Architectural Digest,
17 Jan. 2025
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My creative process is instinctive and spontaneous.—
Stephan Rabimov,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
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Read More: These Are the Best Ways to Improve Your Memory In addition, bus drivers, aircraft pilots, and ship captains—the jobs with less spontaneous decision-making—had Alzheimer’s death rates typical of the rest of the population.—
Christopher M. Worsham,
TIME,
14 Jan. 2025
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The price of bonds moves opposite to yields, so the fact that bonds have performed poorly over a period that included rapid interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve is perhaps not too much of a surprise.—
Jesse Pound,
CNBC,
17 Jan. 2025
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Critics say that many of these schools have prioritized rapid growth over quality – delivering cheap programs and massive advertising budgets to swell their ranks, without making similar investments in student support and basic instruction quality.—
Derek Newton,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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The Republican also acknowledged Charlotte is pushing for swift action in the legislature.—
Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
23 Jan. 2025
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Even for many residents of Gaza, however, the swift re-emergence of the fighters, some in official uniforms, was a surprise.—
Iyad Abuheweila,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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Resolutions are at times a spur-of-the-moment consideration.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
30 Dec. 2024
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Pocket Blanket Mini One SELF editor recommends keeping this mini waterproof blanket on you for spur-of-the-moment outdoor hangs.—
Jessica Kasparian,
SELF,
10 Dec. 2024
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Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel (341 yards, two TDs, 27-yard rush TD) and Ohio State’s Will Howard (326 yards, two TDs, rush TD) were both brilliant.—
Ralph D. Russo,
The Athletic,
22 Dec. 2024
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Others were rush jobs.—
Rolling Stone,
Rolling Stone,
27 Dec. 2022
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What may have been an offhand, humorous comment, had garnered more than 32 million views, as of Wednesday.—
Greta Cross,
USA TODAY,
15 Jan. 2025
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Yet the canny level of observation — at once casual, caustic and empathetic — makes for a film that adds up to considerably more than the sum of its seemingly offhand parts.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
21 Dec. 2024
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Was all this slapdash music generation serving in some way to devalue music in my life? Max Vehuni, one half of the indie-pop duo slenderbodies, talked me off that ledge.—
Chris Velazco,
Washington Post,
5 July 2024
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All that history means Delta is far from a slapdash app quickly thrown together to take advantage of Apple's new openness to emulation.—
Kyle Orland,
Ars Technica,
18 Apr. 2024
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“Horseback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horseback. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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