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Cassie is trying to become social-media famous, suggestively flashing her all-American assets online in a variety of fetishy costumes (a puppy dog, a pacifier-sucking baby).
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Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2026
Unlike the children, who look like waxy versions of my own, this is my husband, with the soft face and the plaid shirt and the puppy dog—
Eyes.
—Glamour, 7 Apr. 2026
William Tong thought a puppy dog would be innocuous.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2026
Meanwhile, quarterback Fernando Mendoza is the opposite: a big, smiling, slobbering puppy dog of a human being.
—Will Leitch, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
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Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2026
Unlike the children, who look like waxy versions of my own, this is my husband, with the soft face and the plaid shirt and the puppy dog—
Eyes.
—Glamour, 7 Apr. 2026
William Tong thought a puppy dog would be innocuous.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2026
Meanwhile, quarterback Fernando Mendoza is the opposite: a big, smiling, slobbering puppy dog of a human being.
—Will Leitch, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
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“Puppy dog.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puppy%20dog. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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