as in horses
a large hoofed domestic animal that is used for carrying or drawing loads and for riding
one of the more esteemed equines of modern times was the racehorse Seabiscuit
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Noun
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Later, the series added a golden retriever, Comet, and showcased a parrot, a turtle, a horse.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025 -
The story follows a recovering alcoholic who travels to a remote horse breeding farm to make amends with his high school sweetheart as part of his twelve-step program.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Later, the series added a golden retriever, Comet, and showcased a parrot, a turtle, a horse.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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Obsessed anglers who lived in Key West, and whose fiction sometimes gravitates toward horses, blood sports, and male protagonists with a masculine swagger counterbalanced by a certain reflective, existentialist temperament—the similarities between the two are obvious, yet go only so far.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Equines.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equines. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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