prancer

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prancer
Noun
  • His sweetbreads in pig trotter ragu evoke his memories of eating pork knuckle at his grandmother’s house.
    Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
  • Use a variety of bones like knuckle bones, pig trotters and chicken feet for a better broth.
    Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This was at a time when most of the robber barons couldn't have picked their children out of a police lineup, and Jay Gould was taking his daughter around the garden on a pony with a leading rein.
    Maureen Lee Lenker Published, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The bog standard Vantage is hardly a slouch with 656 bhp, but Aston Martin has given its new S car 671 ponies and 590 lb ft.
    Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • The Hollywood Reporter’s original review is below: For an old warhorse, Freaky Friday looks darn cute.
    Kirk Honeycutt, HollywoodReporter, 12 July 2025
  • Broadway theaters subsist on stunt-cast revivals of old warhorses; book publishers rely disproportionately on backlist sales.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025
Noun
  • The train that rings Vesuvius makes its rounds as racehorses train along the shore.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 22 July 2025
  • All 21 horses racing in this year's Kentucky Derby are reportedly descendants of the famed racehorse Secretariat, according to The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • Leadership stumbles, hidden value is ignored, and then the pressure mounts.
    Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • As the war draws on and the civilian death toll mounts, multiple human rights organizations and a handful of U.S. lawmakers have characterized the events in Gaza as a genocide — an assertion that Israeli officials have forcefully rejected.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Along with the thousands of cows, the property is home to 180 bulls, 7,500 yearlings, and 130 saddle horses.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The farm also had saddle horses, a team of Belgian draft horses that helped haul manure and feed, and plenty of chickens that supplied eggs for those big breakfasts every morning (followed by even larger dinners at noon and suppers in the evenings).
    Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Lynch spends much of her spare time riding her four quarter horses.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2025
  • Jose and Irma Sifuentes went out to run a quick errand Monday only to come back to find Rey, their American quarter horse, missing from the family’s stable in unincorporated Kane County.
    Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • Osprey Poco Plus Child Carrier for $240 ($80 off) Parent or packhorse?
    Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 16 July 2024
  • In 1811 Charles’s 21-year-old father loaded a white stallion and a packhorse with baskets of Champagne and set off for Moscow, nearly 2,000 miles away.
    Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021
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“Prancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prancer. Accessed 29 Aug. 2025.

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