racehorse

Definition of racehorsenext

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Recent Examples of racehorse In the meantime, to switch sports for a moment, OpenAI is like a fractious racehorse. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 8 Feb. 2026 Soon, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police launched a helicopter search-and-rescue operation, while Nicholas' father — multimillionaire racehorse owner Alfred Vanderbilt — funded his own search team. Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 31 Jan. 2026 The first two racehorse deaths of 2026 in California occurred at Santa Anita. Kevin Modesti, Oc Register, 16 Jan. 2026 Parker Knutson's football season at Southwest Minnesota State started like a racehorse bursting out of the gates; five interceptions in his first three games matching last year's total. Ren Clayton, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for racehorse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for racehorse
Noun
  • Create the slick front with a pomade to keep hair smooth and prevent fly-aways, and pull curls into a simple low pony.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 5 May 2026
  • And for even the most casual fashion fan, this comeback felt highly relatable — after all, who didn’t own something with that iconic pony logo at some point in their life?
    Diana Tsui, Footwear News, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • In the East Village, the stylish Hunan Slurp is known for spicy stir fries and less common proteins, including frog, pig trotter, and century egg.
    Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The race welcomed para-athletes, and trotters with strollers were also invited to take part.
    Dylan Olsen, CBS News, 27 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • But these warhorses have been rejuvenated in startling ways.
    Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • This is a warhorse expected to pull a buggy around a cottage.
    Jesus R. Garcia, Houston Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2026
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
Noun
  • Retailer profit margins are chronically slim — and during rapid crude price increases even negative — giving them an incentive to raise prices quickly as the cost of crude and of refined gas mounts — and to try to hold the higher prices steady to recover their margins as their other costs call.
    Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
  • Then again, Ortiz has been pretty charmed this weekend with five winners on Friday, including the Oaks, and five seconds in 11 mounts Saturday before capping it with the Derby.
    Gary B. Graves, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
Noun
  • Music is one way the mares, part of Nodiff-Netanel’s nonprofit called Mini Therapy Horses, comfort people, especially hospital patients, in Southern California.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 9 May 2026
  • The day before the Kentucky Derby each year is known as Ladies’ Day, with several stakes races for fillies and mares, highlighted by the Kentucky Oaks.
    Jay Posner, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2026
Noun
  • No curtains blowing in the wind and white stallions.
    Matt Thompson, SPIN, 4 May 2026
  • Mark Toothaker, a stallion sales manager for Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, was on the couch cracking up with his wife, Malory, about the whiffed field goal and consequential turnover.
    Kelly O'Grady, CBS News, 3 May 2026
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

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“Racehorse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/racehorse. Accessed 13 May. 2026.

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