as in stallion
a large hoofed domestic animal that is used for carrying or drawing loads and for riding
the mounted police stable their horses in the city park
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Recent Examples of horse
Tucked into central Tennessee’s horse country about an hour from Nashville, this former railroad town has a teensy footprint of fewer than 500 residents but loves to welcome visitors—especially for the annual RC Cola-MoonPie festival in June.
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 8 Jan. 2026
An annual classic car show and the celebrated horse racing week in nearby Iffezheim completed the scene.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2026
In the early 1970s, all the buildings in the two blocks just north and east of the Stadium Arena were torn down, according to the Stock Show, including a three-story horse barn, the Hollis and Platt cattle barn, the Lamont Pavilion, and the Burlington Railroad warehouse.
—John Wenzel, Denver Post, 7 Jan. 2026
Racing and off-track betting were expected to resume this coming weekend, but horse owners and trainers remained alarmed about the track’s finances.
—Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 8 Jan. 2026
An annual classic car show and the celebrated horse racing week in nearby Iffezheim completed the scene.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2026
In the early 1970s, all the buildings in the two blocks just north and east of the Stadium Arena were torn down, according to the Stock Show, including a three-story horse barn, the Hollis and Platt cattle barn, the Lamont Pavilion, and the Burlington Railroad warehouse.
—John Wenzel, Denver Post, 7 Jan. 2026
Racing and off-track betting were expected to resume this coming weekend, but horse owners and trainers remained alarmed about the track’s finances.
—Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for horse
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There’s no reason to abandon your star stallion just before the big race.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
21 Dec. 2025
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Among the latter is ravenous beaver Nibbles Maplestick (Fortune Feimster, hilarious), who turns out to be a key ally, and pompous new mayor Brian Winddancer (Patrick Warburton), a stallion who used to be an actor.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The latter was shipped to the Indianapolis Colts in a deal that brought New York two first-round picks and wide receiver AD Mitchell, whom the colts drafted in the second round in 2024.—
Andrew McCarty,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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Tom Welling lives the good life on a horse farm in Northern California with his golden retriever Rosey and colt Apollo.—
Brendan Le,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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Sunday finale Brown is seeking his seventh Matriarch win in nine years Sunday in the one-mile turf test for older fillies and mares.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Nov. 2025
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The $80,000 Swingtime Stakes matches a large field of fillies and mares seeking their first stakes win in 2025.—
Kevin Modesti,
Oc Register,
12 Oct. 2025
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Parker Knutson's football season at Southwest Minnesota State started like a racehorse bursting out of the gates; five interceptions in his first three games matching last year's total.—
Ren Clayton,
CBS News,
21 Nov. 2025
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The track was briefly placed on probation by the CHRB in 2020 due to a spate of racehorse deaths.—
City News Service,
Oc Register,
11 Nov. 2025
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Development of roads and buildings in the Ag Reserve, though meticulous, has reduced the space available for equine operators to take horses out for rides, the O’Donnells argue.—
Abigail Hasebroock,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Jan. 2026
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Because of an outbreak of equine herpesvirus, a contagious equine virus that can cause neurological and respiratory diseases, the decision was made to not have any horses or other equines in the parade.—
Tracy Trobridge,
Baltimore Sun,
4 Jan. 2026
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Rent your steed from Red Raven and let those chunky-monkey tires carry you along the area's 50 miles of trails.—
Ginger Crichton,
Midwest Living,
9 Jan. 2026
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Lauren Sánchez Bezos and Jeff Bezos rolled through Aspen this week on their trusty steed—sorry, private jet—to celebrate Sánchez Bezos’s 56th birthday.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
22 Dec. 2025
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“Horse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horse. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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