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equids

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plural of equid

as in racehorses

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Options include traditional frames (with over 50 styles to choose from), canvas prints, wood mounts, and framed canvases.

— Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 3 Nov. 2026
Sure, the pressure mounts, your hands get sweaty and things can go awry.

— Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of mounts

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The most potent version of Lucid’s impressive debut model is the Air Sapphire, which features a tri-motor powertrain—one unit is positioned up front, the other two on the rear axle—that produces a hypercar-like 1,234 horses.

— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2026
The bill is named after Romanch Mahajan, an 18-year-old tourist from India who was killed when a horse got startled and threw him from a carriage in Central Park.

— Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of horses

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The race at Sepang saw old warhorses Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton show their class in challenging conditions.

— Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 8 Oct. 2026
Perhaps most notably, the annual opera program will divert from the Pacific Symphony’s traditional Verdi and Puccini Italian operatic warhorses.

— Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 27 May 2026

Definition of warhorses

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Animal rights activists have argued in favor of banning the industry for more than two decades, calling the work dangerous and inherently abusive to the equines.

— Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026
Undomesticated equines could not stop it from happening.

— Ian Stokes, Space.com, 3 June 2026

Definition of equines

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Down at the bottom of the hill, Butch was sitting in the grass among a dozen or more stallions.

— Emily Ruskovich, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
Mares use this land as a nursery, stallions retreat there to recover from injuries caused by fighting, and old horses go deep into the marsh to lay themselves to rest.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 2 July 2026

Definition of stallions

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With outsize interest in this small country, its sound stages are frequently full, and filmmakers say there is often a run on everything from lenses to edit bays to left-driving cars.

— Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
Farther south, head to the seaside village of La Parguera, a short boat ride from one of the island's three bioluminescent bays.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026

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