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Recent Examples of jennyHere are the most common turkey sounds that gobblers, hens, jakes, and jennies make.—Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 2 May 2024 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 Hamilton’s mother, Quiche, was a Poitou jenny — female donkey — at a Vermont equine rescue center.—BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2021 Together, Rikki and Luna watched from the back porch steps while Valentine worked his Presas on the jenny.—Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018 Another distinctive ground cover is creeping jenny, an evergreen that stays quite flat on the ground.—Nancy Brachey, charlotteobserver, 29 Jan. 2018 The cave was apparently quite spacious, with room for a spinning jenny and a large library.—Marcus Rediker, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
Karl Urban has kicked ass on the USS Enterprise in Star Trek, in Middle Earth in The Lord of the Rings, and on Asgard in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — but none of those proved as difficult as picking up Johnny Cage's bo staff.
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Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
Hamza Malik, a bumbling Intelligence and Threats official, gets his ass handed to him by his superior, a steely, very tall man with a Bond-villain demeanor who all but steps on Malik’s neck.
The case of Mamulya, a donkey whose hoof was shattered, apparently in a mine explosion, becomes central to the story, emblematic of the assistance the sanctuary receives from within and beyond Ukraine’s borders in order to provide state-of-the-art medical treatments.
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Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Oct. 2025
Goya’s print with this quote originally features a master donkey, seemingly instructing a disciple.
In 2022, Bureau of Land Management officials updated a program to incentivize adoptions of wild horses and burros by offering a $1,000 payment for the adoption of an animal removed from federal public lands.
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John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
23 Oct. 2025
Researchers have seen that wild horses and burros will hog water tanks, streams, and other water sources — often to the detriment of native critters like deer and antelope, which are easily bullied by a big stallion.
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