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as in puppy
a domestic mammal that is related to the wolves and foxes
a dog who needs a loving home
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as in bastard
a person whose behavior is offensive to others
she must think that you're a real dog after hearing those tasteless jokes you told last night
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as in to chase
to go after or on the track of
star athletes being dogged by fans when they're out in public
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as in to hound
to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp reminders
tired of constantly having to dog their son about cleaning his room
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Recent Examples of dog
Maryclaire Dale, Marc Levy and Michael Rubinkam, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
Responding officers found the dog, and advised the owner to take the dog in.
—cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
Darlene Superville, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2025
As Trump seeks to recenter his second term around more familiar grievances—immigration, crime, the economy—the Epstein files continue to dog him.
—Nik Popli, Time, 16 July 2025
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Noun
Police brought in hundreds of law enforcement personnel with dogs, armored carriers, horses and helicopters that circled overhead.
—Maryclaire Dale, Marc Levy and Michael Rubinkam, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
Responding officers found the dog, and advised the owner to take the dog in.
—cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
Verb
The case has dogged Trump at home and abroad and even followed Vice President JD Vance during an appearance in his home state of Ohio on Monday.
—Darlene Superville, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2025
As Trump seeks to recenter his second term around more familiar grievances—immigration, crime, the economy—the Epstein files continue to dog him.
—Nik Popli, Time, 16 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dog
Noun
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My Great Pyrenees puppy, Mosey, was 6 months old, had been there several times and had always been comfortable with unfamiliar dogs.—
Marisa Walker,
Mercury News,
13 Aug. 2025
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The scene continues the episode’s running gag about Noem shooting puppies.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
Verb
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American investors, asset managers, and technology companies are flowing East, chasing growth in emerging markets backed by sovereign wealth.—
Robert Daugherty,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Work with a travel agency to charter your very own expedition vessel to the poles: whether the fjords of the Arctic to toast champagne under the midnight sun, or Antarctica to chase the aurora australis.—
Erina Pinar,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Aug. 2025
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Opponents will hound Kawamura at the point of attack and attempt to corral him with length.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
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The question has hounded the Houston Astros across an 81-game stretch defined by attrition, yet still defying expectations.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
26 June 2025
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Kaitlyn Santa Juana plays a college student who learns that her grandmother cheated Death decades ago, and now that jerk is coming to take out her whole family via various creatively gnarly, Rube Goldberg-esque kills.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
1 Aug. 2025
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Mid-performance, the prop jerks downward after slipping from its wire, causing a drop that nearly unseats her.—
Mitchell Peters,
Billboard,
19 July 2025
Verb
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In response, Holland said the department didn't have any way to track appeals other than through complaints filed with the department.—
Nathan Ansell,
Arkansas Online,
16 Aug. 2025
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Gallup has been tracking Americans’ drinking behavior since 1939, and their views of the health implications of drinking since 2001.—
Jeffrey Kopp,
CNN Money,
15 Aug. 2025
Verb
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One ayatollah in particular, Ruhollah Khomeini, needled the Shah incessantly.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Booker's comment outraged Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., 65, another prospective and former 2020 White House contender, who needled him for missing a committee hearing on the bipartisan package.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
2 Aug. 2025
Noun
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So Bull does what any sensible, testicle-loving mutt would do.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
13 Aug. 2025
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The phrase has become shorthand for a kind of national inferiority syndrome—a sense that Brazil, despite its grand ambitions and global flair, thinks of itself as a mutt trying to hang with pedigrees.—
Shannon Sims,
New Yorker,
30 July 2025
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Carnival Midway’s cast of trapeze artists, aerialists, jugglers and clowns perform every hour on the half hour, starting at 1:30 p.m. (on weekends, the show kicks off at 11:30a.m.).—
Alex Schechter,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Aug. 2025
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Guests were surrounded by a surreal landscape of vanishing walls, floating furniture, and a creepy clown with a menacing smile.—
Simon Thompson,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Dog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dog. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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