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Recent Examples of trotter
My mom always emphasized the role of food: some dishes, like pork trotters with peanuts or ginger chicken drenched in sesame oil, are said to repair the uterus.
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Clarissa Wei, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2024
For this reason, married Taiwanese daughters return home on leap day to cook pig trotter noodles, a dish made with pig's feet, for their parents, which is thought to bring them good fortune and health.
—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 29 Feb. 2024
The Shanghai trotter is a massive hunk of wobbly pork served over a bed of bok choy.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
There are also venison and pig trotter pies, each lanced with an enormous marrow bone.
—Caitie Kelly Wei Tchou Julia Halperin Tom Delavan Lane Nieset Gage Daughdrill, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
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Clarissa Wei, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2024
For this reason, married Taiwanese daughters return home on leap day to cook pig trotter noodles, a dish made with pig's feet, for their parents, which is thought to bring them good fortune and health.
—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 29 Feb. 2024
The Shanghai trotter is a massive hunk of wobbly pork served over a bed of bok choy.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
There are also venison and pig trotter pies, each lanced with an enormous marrow bone.
—Caitie Kelly Wei Tchou Julia Halperin Tom Delavan Lane Nieset Gage Daughdrill, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trotter
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An extraordinarily valuable racehorse, alone in his stall one night, was fatally injured.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes,
11 Dec. 2024
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The pair co-owns a 3-year-old racehorse, March of Time, that won for the first time at Santa Anita last week.—
Newsweek,
Newsweek,
3 Jan. 2025
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This change enabled a new fictional genre to develop: horse-girl fiction, which idealized stories about girls and their ponies.—
Rebecca Scofield / Made by History,
TIME,
21 Jan. 2025
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See the mini pony, Dolly dress-up station, book drive and more.—
Angelica Stabile,
Fox News,
15 Jan. 2025
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The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, that warhorse of English traditionalism, is mentioned six times, and his plangent music—invoking a lost, idyllic England; a greener, more pleasant land—could easily be the novel’s soundtrack.—
Charles McGrath,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2024
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At 33, Watt is young enough not to be tired of even the most familiar rock radio warhorses.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
19 Sep. 2024
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Osprey Poco Plus Child Carrier for $240 ($80 off) Parent or packhorse?—
Drew Zieff,
Outside Online,
16 July 2024
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In 1811 Charles’s 21-year-old father loaded a white stallion and a packhorse with baskets of Champagne and set off for Moscow, nearly 2,000 miles away.—
Moira Hodgson,
WSJ,
30 Dec. 2021
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With twinkling lights, festive music, and the scent of roasted chestnuts in the air, these markets promise an enchanting experience for all who visit.—
Keyla Vasconcellos,
Forbes,
17 Dec. 2024
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Like the aroma of roasted American chestnuts, a pipedream because a fungal blight rendered the trees extinct.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
16 Dec. 2024
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As frustration mounts, a once-fringe idea regains traction: secession.—
Dr. Alex Gold,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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The motorized mount features a rechargeable lithium-ion battery that allows for an impressive 10 hours of uninterrupted stargazing.—
Gemma Lavender,
Space.com,
15 Jan. 2025
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Around her are two other mares with their foals snuggling up to them.—
James Russell,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 June 2024
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Horse racing’s biggest star closes from dead last, but Blame holds off the 6-year-old mare and wins the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic under the lights Churchill Downs.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Nov. 2024
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The trackers plugged in data on a herd of roan antelope, then a single male cheetah.—
ByDimitri Selibas,
science.org,
13 June 2024
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Only eight gray or roan horses have ever won the first leg of the Triple Crown.—
Alexis Cubit,
The Courier-Journal,
2 May 2023
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“Trotter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trotter. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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