mule

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Recent Examples of mule With a price point of $350, these waterproof leather and rubber mules give a classic winter boot an urban edge without sacrificing comfort or durability. Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2024 Ariel, a farmer with a second-grade education, got around on foot and by horse or mule. Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 24 Oct. 2024 Indeed, some areas became so inaccessible that supplies have been delivered by mule and air. Patrick Snell, CNN, 5 Oct. 2024 And mules delivered medical supplies to mountaintop homes. Jeff Amy, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for mule 
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Noun
  • Outdoor cats generally do not live as long as indoor cats and are at risk of trauma from cars, fights with other cats, free-roaming dogs, and predators, such as raccoons and coyotes.
    Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
  • See the fight Expect to see more of these Arizona animals Because there is cooler weather in the winter months, there might be increases in sightings of coyotes, bobcats and javelinas, according to Game and Fish.
    Zach Bradshaw, The Arizona Republic, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The only other research dog breeder according to current USDA inventories is Oak Hill Genetics based in Franklin County in Illinois, which housed about 800 mongrel hound dogs in July.
    ByMeredith Wadman, science.org, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Herzog has chosen to retain one of Ibsen’s thorniest speeches, a diatribe about social evolution in which Stockmann talks of the difference between mongrel dogs and pedigree breeds as an analogy for the uneducated masses and the elite intelligentsia.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • Related Articles The menu featured McCormack’s quirky illustrations of a barefoot, Wife of Bath-style character riding a donkey — and smoking a cigarette — and a menagerie of fish, fowl and other animals.
    Samantha Conti, WWD, 10 Oct. 2024
  • There, the family owns several chickens, numerous horses, multiple goats, and a donkey, according to The New York Times.
    Nicholas Rice, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Physicists debated for decades (opens a new tab) whether this bizarre superfluid-solid hybrid could exist.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Following the trend of reviving old model names for new cars, Honda is set to bring the Prelude name back with a petrol hybrid powertrain soon.
    Trinity Francis, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Here are the most common turkey sounds that gobblers, hens, jakes, and jennies make.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 2 May 2024
  • Loughlin, who has posted consistent results all summer racing a 10-year-old jenny named Mary Margaret, was fortunate to have Hal Walter, a seven-time pack burro racing world champion, take her under his wing and share plenty of the tricks of the trade through the years.
    Brian Metzler, Outside Online, 16 Aug. 2022
Noun
  • After decades of neglect, the BLM is starting to address overpopulations of wild horses and burros on its Western rangelands.
    Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Your second best bet is to stay put and get yourself a burro.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The distillery enlisted the help of a scientist to create a crossbreed of barley that could stand up to extreme fluctuations in weather in the mountains, which ranges from hot summers to snowy winters.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 30 July 2024
  • The crossbreed was already banned late last year in England and Wales, according to the Irish Examiner.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 5 June 2024
Noun
  • Had a heartbreaker last week and then getting our ass kicked this week.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Better to be the lowest-down dirtiest devil of the underground than get your ass handed to you by one.
    Andy Andersen, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024

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“Mule.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mule. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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