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Recent Examples of foal
Horses — selectively bred by humans over millennia — lack this response and will just keep pumping out foals.
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Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 31 July 2025
Puff and the new addition were transferred to the foal pen, the farm said in a July 17 post.
—Tj MacIas 17, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 July 2025
An endangered wild Asian horse foal is thriving thanks to an unlikely hero.
—Mark Vancleave, Twin Cities, 30 June 2025
In the early 1950s, a foal born in Kentucky was declared lifeless after a traumatic birth.
—Lela London, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
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Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 31 July 2025
Puff and the new addition were transferred to the foal pen, the farm said in a July 17 post.
—Tj MacIas 17, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 July 2025
An endangered wild Asian horse foal is thriving thanks to an unlikely hero.
—Mark Vancleave, Twin Cities, 30 June 2025
In the early 1950s, a foal born in Kentucky was declared lifeless after a traumatic birth.
—Lela London, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foal
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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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All five were of the same mare, shot between the 1860s and 1870s in the Zoological Society of London’s Zoo — making her both the first and last quagga ever photographed.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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The colt doesn’t know the racetrack he was bred for – the pride of Ruidoso – lies in ruins for the second year running, gutted by floodwaters that turned familiar dirt into a sucking bog of mud.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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The Del Mar Futurity, at 7 furlongs, also revolves around Baffert, whose colts have won the past four runnings and 18 of the past 29, dominance that began with Silver Charm winning the Futurity in a mild upset to jumpstart his journey to victory in the 1997 Kentucky Derby.—
Kevin Modesti,
Oc Register,
4 Sep. 2025
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San Francisco’s stallion is the current RB1 of ones in PPR formats, shouldering a tireless 80.8 percent of the team’s opportunity share (25 touches per game).—
Brad Evans,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Following last season’s reunion-spoiling revelations about his father (ex-CIA operative Frank Harkness) and his father’s past (raising children to be super-soldiers), the galloping young stallion (played by Jack Lowden) hasn’t been able to screw his head on straight.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
24 Sep. 2025
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Crossing the finish line at odds of 18-1, this seven-year-old gelding shook up the world in more ways than one.—
Danny Brewer,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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However, the 7-year-old gelding has won the track’s top summer grass race for older horses – the Grade II Del Mar Handicap – three straight years.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 July 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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And coupled with Bottle of Rouge’s upset victory Saturday in the Del Mar Debutante – Baffert’s 12th win in the fillies’ 2-year-old championship race – Baffert has now swept the juvenile titles two straight years and eight times since 1996.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Sep. 2025
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Volunteers even accompanied her to meetings at her son’s school, where Ángel, who is on the autism spectrum, now receives music, art and equine therapy.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
18 Oct. 2025
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Hotel guests can spend plenty of time with the hotel's horses and even try equine yoga.—
Katie Lockhart,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Foal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foal. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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