mule

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Recent Examples of mule For a shoe that lives somewhere between polished and relaxed, look for a mule with a low heel. Alex Sales, Glamour, 9 Apr. 2026 Rue’s adventures as a drug mule are both horrifying and blisteringly funny, walking a tightrope that Levinson has always navigated expertly. Radhika Seth, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2026 It’s been five years since high school, and Rue (Zendaya) is still paying down her debt to Laurie (Martha Kelly) by working as a drug mule. Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2026 Zendaya’s Rue works as a drug mule for the forever droll Laurie (the great Martha Kelly). Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for mule
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mule
Noun
  • The temporary mail service pause happened days after a child had an encounter with a coyote in the area.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026
  • With the resources available to urban coyotes, the average coyote births six new pups.
    Caden Perry, jsonline.com, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In between are a bunch of mongrel appliances that leave both humans and technology worse for wear, like a computer, in a 2024 photo by Sara Deraedt, that seems to be giving birth to a wet child.
    Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Reuters reported that the dog involved in the incident was a mongrel, or an unknown breed.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Grab a coffee and visit ponies, donkeys, sheep, pigs, geese, goats, and chickens, or head to the garden to wander around the apple, pear, and plum trees in the orchard.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Across the river in Mexico, men hawk rides in their dusty pick-ups, on horseback or by donkey, to take tourists three-quarters of a mile up a dirt road.
    Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Microsoft also signed a deal with chipmaker AMD to create an Xbox-Windows hybrid console that will play Xbox console games and also full-PC games from the open Windows marketplace.
    J. Kyle Foster, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Silver Ray reduces carbon emissions by by using dual-fuel LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) hybrid engines and a hull designed to reduce fuel consumption.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Apr. 2026
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
  • Before leaving the state, the one-time gold mining town of Oatman features a Wild West atmosphere, daily staged shootouts and beloved burros.
    Susan Montoya Bryan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Riverside County Department of Animal Services officials are seeking help from the public in locating a pair of dogs that were recently involved in an attack on a wild burro, part of a series of attacks on the creatures dating back to late 2025.
    Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • While the findings aren’t a condemnation of any one specific crossbreed, the study’s authors hope the new information will help dispel ongoing myths about designer dogs.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Mar. 2026
  • In this week’s issue, John Seabrook, a staff writer and doodle owner, explores how these crossbreeds got to be so popular.
    Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Some smart ass remark like that.
    Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 17 Apr. 2026
  • When Fergus gave him a reason to live during that bleak ass cave phase.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026

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“Mule.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mule. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.

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