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Recent Examples of jennet
Because donkeys breed slowly—a jennet typically produces a foal only every other year—the drain is rapidly depleting Africa’s herd.
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Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2024
Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jennet
Noun
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Here are the most common turkey sounds that gobblers, hens, jakes, and jennies make.—
Josh Honeycutt,
Outdoor Life,
2 May 2024
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Loughlin, who has posted consistent results all summer racing a 10-year-old jenny named Mary Margaret, was fortunate to have Hal Walter, a seven-time pack burro racing world champion, take her under his wing and share plenty of the tricks of the trade through the years.—
Brian Metzler,
Outside Online,
16 Aug. 2022
Noun
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Bougainvillea draped over walls and doorways, vehicles and donkey carts filled traffic, busy restaurants lined the river banks.—
Emmanuel Akinwotu,
NPR,
16 May 2025
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Its mechanized forces, central to its strategies for victory, are bleeding out and now include museum-grade military trucks, civilian cars, vans, all-terrain vehicles and motorcycles ... and even donkeys.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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HMAs are designated areas where the BLM tries to manage a sustainable number of horses and burros while keeping rangelands healthy for other uses, like recreation and grazing.—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
2 Apr. 2025
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In other words, humans will tire out long before the burro.—
Heather Mundt,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 June 2024
Noun
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Her mother stalked the perimeter of the grave, faced with a philosophical question: how to take pictures of the ass of a ghost.—
Patricia Lockwood,
New Yorker,
18 May 2025
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The warm moment is interrupted, though, by Seth being a drunk and homophobic ass.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
18 May 2025
Cite this Entry
“Jennet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jennet. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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