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Recent Examples of pup
Noun
The Bissell PowerClean FurFinder has been a reliable appliance to transform her weekly cleaning, as the self-standing stick vacuum has a tangle-free illuminated head, three suction levels, and multiple attachments that can handle anything her pup throws its way.—Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2025 Not all lap dogs are actually lap sized, and one pup in Texas can prove it — hopefully, to a family of her own.—Tj MacIas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
The Seal Society was instrumental in the city’s decision in 2014 to close the beach at La Jolla’s Children’s Pool to the public from Dec. 15 to May 15 annually to keep humans and harbor seals separated during the seals’ pupping season.—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2025 Visiting Point Reyes in spring coincides with the final weeks of elephant seal pupping season, meaning the highest number of pups on the beaches.—Emese MacZko, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for pup
Just before Thursday’s taping Pence and Emanual met outside the greenroom, and each greeted each other warmly, quickly asking each other questions about their kids before anything else, while kidding with each other about a long unpaid bet.
The sorrowful puppy dog eyes were all because the owner’s tuxedo cat was curled up among the blankets in Rocky’s crate (despite having a bed of his own).
As an independent music artist, Kerensa is no stranger to social media—but didn’t expect Pomelo kitten to become an internet star.
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Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
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.
Still, the hearing last year that reduced his sentence kindled some optimism.
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Amy Yurkanin,
ProPublica,
9 Oct. 2025
And in death, their reputations for kindling outrage, whether publishing controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad or stoking viral arguments on college campuses – made defending freedom of speech a national priority.
The novel opens as the teenage Karl Rossmann, whose parents shipped him off to America for fathering a child when he was seduced by the family’s thirty-five-year-old cook, arrives on a steamer in New York harbor and sees the Statue of Liberty holding not the emblematic torch but rather a sword.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
In June, the singer filed for a temporary restraining order and alleged that Wagner made false claims about living at her property, being in a relationship with her and fathering her child.
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