as in mare
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as in castrating
to deprive of emotional or intellectual vitality
by the time of the fourth rewrite, the screenplay had pretty much been gelded of all originality
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Recent Examples of gelding
Arkansas Online, 22 Feb. 2026
Cole, a Belgian gelding who’s about 12 years old, calmly stood tied to a rope in the barn on the Kuehls’ property as visitors walked up to him and rubbed above his nose.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026
Mac Engel
april 16, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2026
By gelding a choirboy, the Church would suspend his gossamer vocal cords so that a child’s song could live on in a man’s throat, backed, crucially, by a man’s powerful lungs.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
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Noun
Trainer Shea Stuart's 7-year-old Cyber Secret gelding, a three-time local winner with 10 board finishes, tuned up with two races in open company.
—Arkansas Online, 22 Feb. 2026
Cole, a Belgian gelding who’s about 12 years old, calmly stood tied to a rope in the barn on the Kuehls’ property as visitors walked up to him and rubbed above his nose.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026
Verb
Those scenarios are plausible because college and pro sports are loaded with examples of teams gelding themselves to keep a star player happy.
—Mac Engel
april 16, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2026
By gelding a choirboy, the Church would suspend his gossamer vocal cords so that a child’s song could live on in a man’s throat, backed, crucially, by a man’s powerful lungs.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gelding
Noun
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One that began with a pregnant mare shot and abandoned in a field, barely alive.—
Nielsen Dinwoodie,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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First, find all your ilmenite-rich regions (which are typically in lunar mare, the dark patches on the moon that signify frozen seas of ancient lava).—
Robin George Andrews,
Scientific American,
14 May 2026
Verb
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Under colonial rule hijras were accused of acting as male prostitutes and of kidnapping and castrating children to grow their community.—
Charles Preston,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
28 May 2026
Noun
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Booted home a length and a quarter to the good by jockey Paco Lopez, this Chad Summers trained gray colt was no doubt the best on Maryland’s biggest day of racing.—
Danny Brewer,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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The Preakness features a venue change to a 115-year-old track that has never hosted the event, a field of some of the best 3-year-old colts in the country and a couple of chances to make horse racing history.—
Stephen Whyno,
Chicago Tribune,
16 May 2026
Verb
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Congress can pursue fiscal responsibility without undermining one of the most focused and effective nutrition programs in the federal government.—
Sam Raus,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 May 2026
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If organizations aren’t careful, their approach to AI will split their workforce into haves and have-nots, undermining the technology’s benefits.—
Matt Rosenbaum,
Fortune,
29 May 2026
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With $2 million on the line, a stallion-making race like this should draw plenty of interest.—
Danny Brewer,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2026
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Vogel has very carefully plotted United Touch’s 2026 campaign and Aachen marked just the third show of the year for the stallion.—
The Athletic Staff,
New York Times,
24 May 2026
Verb
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But eventually, the structure itself needs to be questioned, because getting that balance right becomes the difference between retaining strong leaders and slowly exhausting them.—
Bronwen Sciortino,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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Sliding effortlessly from incisive observer to chaotic flirt to exhausting narcissist, Firstman is never not in on the joke.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
13 May 2026
Noun
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This day in sports history 1946 — Two-year-old fillies Chakoora and Uleta become the first thoroughbreds to complete a transcontinental flight.—
Assistant Sports Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
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The race is a prelude to the Preakness, featuring 3-year-old fillies (female race horses).—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
16 May 2026
Verb
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But the recession of 1969–70 hit New York hard, draining the city of half a million jobs.—
Kevin Lozano,
Harpers Magazine,
2 June 2026
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Making the powder involves several steps, including milk testing and pasteurization, the separation of curds and whey, draining and pasteurizing the liquid whey, and then sending it to a processing facility to remove more liquid via evaporation and spray drying.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
2 June 2026
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“Gelding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gelding. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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