mule

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Recent Examples of mule Allow your accessories to build depth and contrast—think Saint Laurent’s leopard-print mules, Massimo Dutti’s woven leather tote, and Alighieri’s red-hot cord necklace. Laura Jackson, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2025 Volunteers used everything from ATVs to pack mules to reach them, prioritizing the delivery of drinking water, oxygen, and insulin. Barbara Kingsolver, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2025 Dinsdale’s party’s included two mules; one cost $150, the other $180. Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 23 Apr. 2025 The fleece fabric adds an extra layer of warmth and comfort, making these mules perfect for a dinner out after a long day of sightseeing or travel. Kristine Thomason, Travel + Leisure, 22 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mule
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mule
Noun
  • What about scrub gopher tortoises, coyotes, and bobcats?
    Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The Israeli military said that soldiers buried the bodies to prevent them from being mangled by stray dogs and coyotes until they could be collected, and that the ambulances were moved to allow the route to be used for civilian evacuations later that day.
    Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Infamously, Brazil suffered from the mongrel complex in the past and a new psychological barrier awaits at the 2026 World Cup when playing European teams.
    Samindra Kunti, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • The only other research dog breeder according to current USDA inventories is Oak Hill Genetics based in Franklin County in Illinois, which housed about 800 mongrel hound dogs in July.
    ByMeredith Wadman, science.org, 28 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Bougainvillea draped over walls and doorways, vehicles and donkey carts filled traffic, busy restaurants lined the river banks.
    Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 16 May 2025
  • 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
  • Republican proponents of the EV and hybrid fees argue the proposal is a matter of fairness.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2025
  • Motion isolation was huge, as some soft beds, especially hybrids, can get a bad rap for being too bouncy.
    Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • Here 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
Noun
  • 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
  • In other words, humans will tire out long before the burro.
    Heather Mundt, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2024
Noun
  • Zoom in: High school junior Jett Hale, from Miami, Texas, fetched the reserve record with his steer, Mike, a stunning charolais crossbreed.
    Jay R. Jordan, Axios, 24 Mar. 2025
  • By selecting various friends in her wanderings, Sophie’s mom had spawned not just one sort of crossbreed, but several in that same litter.
    Charles Hammer, Kansas City Star, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • That doesn’t necessarily mean that the internet is going to give Lisa’s ass a break, though.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 7 May 2025
  • In all seriousness, kris Jenner is a bad ass women who created an empire.
    Rachel Flynn, People.com, 6 May 2025

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“Mule.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mule. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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