pack animal

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Recent Examples of pack animal The long-distance trade is particularly impressive considering pre-Columbian North America’s only pack animal was the dog. Adam Crepelle, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Nov. 2025 All this was built with only basic tools, pack animals and human muscle – the latter supplied by some 9,000 laborers, roughly one-quarter of whom were recent immigrants from Ireland. Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025 But Hani has brought her along more as a companion than as a pack animal. Literary Hub, 21 May 2025 There was as yet no donkey or other docile pack animal, no horse that wasn’t wild, no wheel and hence no wagon. Literary Hub, 15 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for pack animal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pack animal
Noun
  • King and Williams come with their own franchise bona fides, the former having anchored The Kissing Booth films and the latter kicking ass for nearly a decade on Game of Thrones.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Ariana Madix’s past and present are represented by two images involving her ass.
    Anna Peele, Vanity Fair, 31 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Amid the deluge of information was one quick mention, in about Hour 4, of a donkey.
    Emily L. Mahoney, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Thousands of livestock, including cattle, sheep, goats, mules, and donkeys, were unable to escape.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Come for the design, stay for the tagliolini cacio e burro (fresh pasta with butter and cheese).
    Laura Itzkowitz, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The statue was modeled after a real burro that lived in the canyon in the early 20th century.
    Chris Boyette, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Still, the show never gets beyond Russ being a showboating jackass and Chad being the low-IQ projection of a showboating jackass.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Eminem In the first film, Joe Flaherty's character famously heckles Happy by repeatedly calling him a jackass right before he's set to putt.
    Lauren Huff Published, EW.com, 25 July 2025

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“Pack animal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pack%20animal. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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