gelding 1 of 2

present participle of geld

gelding

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noun

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Recent Examples of gelding
Verb
Averill got started in horse racing the same year that Werth was cashing in on U.S. Jets, partnering on a gelding named Fun n’ Gun that year. Dana O'Neil, New York Times, 2 May 2025 In this year's Derby, Hernandez will be riding Burnham Square, the bay gelding who won last month's Blue Grass Stakes in Kentucky and Florida's Holy Bull Stakes in February and was given 12-1 odds in the morning line. Alex Sundby, CBS News, 2 May 2025 Valley of Fire, a 3-year-old gelding, broke both front legs during training and was euthanized on the track. John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2025 Ling even brought a horse — a gray gelding called Banner — to the opening. Samantha Conti, WWD, 20 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gelding
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gelding
Noun
  • Monday’s special Labor Day card features two $100,000, dirt stakes races — the one-mile Tranquility Lakes for older fillies and mares and the Generous Portion, a 5½-furlong sprint for Cal-bred 2-year-old fillies.
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
  • And Lilly is the kindest mare ever.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Conversely, tax noncompliance could be the death knell undermining an otherwise strong application.
    Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Layered onto all of this is a political system in which priorities flip every few years, undermining the long-term planning and financing that such megaprojects demand.
    Ben Jones, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The big colt was runner-up to Skippylongstocking in the G2 Gold Cup at Santa Anita and could factor underneath at a price.
    Jared Welch, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Jones remained on Ohio's death row for decades, exhausting most of his appeals, until Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Wende Cross overturned his murder conviction, freed him from prison and granted him a new trial two years ago.
    Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Stop exhausting yourself trying to be different leaders for different generations.
    Dana Williams, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • On occasion, Andrea has been known to ride his favorite black stallion down the streets of the town, much to the surprise of the visitors.
    Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • There are also beautifully observed moments toward the end with Dorotea and Riccardo; and a moving reckoning with death when Mariano’s favorite horse, a stallion named Elvis, is felled by illness and the president refuses to end his suffering by having the animal put to sleep.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This boost setting optimizes and tunes the speaker’s performance to produce a louder and crisper sound without draining the battery charge.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Keep your greens crisp by draining, rinsing, and patting them dry before using.
    Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Monday’s special Labor Day card features two $100,000, dirt stakes races — the one-mile Tranquility Lakes for older fillies and mares and the Generous Portion, a 5½-furlong sprint for Cal-bred 2-year-old fillies.
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
  • In 1988 his filly Winning Colors became only the third filly to win the Kentucky Derby.
    Neil Milbert, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2025
Verb
  • America’s retreat from WHO deepens the damage by weakening global systems for monitoring outbreaks, reviewing evidence and maintaining databases such as the Global Burden of Disease.
    Stan Chu Ilo, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • That underscored rising concerns of weakening in the labor market, a trend that has shown up in anecdotal evidence for several months.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025

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