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Recent Examples of Synonyms for riata
Noun
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Lord’s video is shot from the back seat of a car cruising down Sunset, the camera tracking other street ads beyond the windshield, centering a lasso-wielding Marlboro Cowboy, a Star Wars movie billboard, and one for the box-office flop Perfect (1985), starring Jamie Lee Curtis and John Travolta.—
Jonathan Odden,
Artforum,
2 June 2026 -
Two Rorschach blobs as tall as men—one dark, the other a bright copper and blue—cast lassos at each other.—
Walker Mimms,
The New York Review of Books,
23 May 2026
Noun
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Back in the ring, Okada and Takeshita went back-and-forth in an excellent sequence with a wheelbarrow back suplex from Takeshita, followed by a running dropkick from Takeshita and a fighting-spirit lariat from Okada.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2026
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King got back in the match, hitting Allin with a cannonball and a lariat.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Riata.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/riata. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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