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Recent Examples of pup
Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
One firefighter jumps in to lift Rufus from the water, while the other pulls the pup onto the ice.
—Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 11 Feb. 2026
Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
And in this year’s Superman, the sidekick pup Krypto was a digital version of director James Gunn’s own dog, Ozu, scanned for the role.
—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
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Noun
According to Nazgul’s owner, who is related to an event official and spoke about the incident in an interview with NPR, the pup had been more emotional than usual that morning as his family got ready to leave.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
One firefighter jumps in to lift Rufus from the water, while the other pulls the pup onto the ice.
—Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 11 Feb. 2026
Verb
Shelter volunteer Lindsay Kaplan, 34, shared the devastating clip on TikTok (@fablinds) after taking Nikki the rescue pup out for the day.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
And in this year’s Superman, the sidekick pup Krypto was a digital version of director James Gunn’s own dog, Ozu, scanned for the role.
—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pup
Noun
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Albers said that if a dog wanders too close to a coyote den during puppy season and a territorial adult coyote is at home, the encounter may not end well for the house pet.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
17 Feb. 2026
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The acting mandate was evidently to go puppy.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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Unlikely Meathead, a whelp who spoke from a position of occasionally whiny, frequently wet-behind-the-ears insulation from life’s realities, Reiner had gray in his beard and a lengthy track record of using his podium for good.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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But don’t kid yourself, if Crosby isn’t in uniform Friday, every single player in that dressing room will take their cue from the best player in the world.—
Pierre LeBrun,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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There are also cool maps on the local prevalence of certain health conditions, from arthritis and asthma to cancer and high cholesterol to diabetes and depression to — not kidding here — where people have lost all their teeth.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
11 Feb. 2026
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William Tong thought a puppy dog would be innocuous.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
22 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, quarterback Fernando Mendoza is the opposite: a big, smiling, slobbering puppy dog of a human being.—
Will Leitch,
New York Times,
13 Jan. 2026
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As an independent music artist, Kerensa is no stranger to social media—but didn’t expect Pomelo kitten to become an internet star.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
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Her carousel began with a photo of the Academy Award-winning actress sitting on the floor, out of frame so that the camera mostly captured her hands holding the black and white kitten up to the lens.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
16 Sep. 2025
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Birthday celebrations in subsequent years seem hardly to have been calculated to kindle a sense of humility.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2026
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There’s a slender streak of humor, dry and combustible as kindling, in the film’s exploration of this absurd domestic setup, which lays out the rigid expectations of women and men alike in a punishingly conservative society.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2026
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In 1999, Jesse Jackson fathered a child with Karin Stanford, the director of the Washington bureau of his organization, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
17 Feb. 2026
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Spike has fathered three other calves at other zoos but none survived, the zoo said.—
Jack Guy,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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Morobe sired two daughters as part of a breeding program.—
Jack Perry,
The Providence Journal,
18 Feb. 2026
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Spike had sired three elephant calves at other zoos, but none survived.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Pup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pup. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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