sled dog

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Recent Examples of sled dog The research could prove critical to preserving healthy sled dog populations far into the future. Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 10 July 2025 The 2006 adventure film revolves around a team of husky sled dogs struggling to survive in Antarctica after a devastating snowstorm—and Ilardi quickly realized that Atlas was paying attention. Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 July 2025 Even with highly efficient motors, a robot like Spot would need a battery dozens of times more powerful than today’s to match the endurance of a sled dog. James Pikul, The Conversation, 2 June 2025 Wolf-dogs are quarrelsome, but not a great deal more so than normal sled dogs. Ted Updike, Outdoor Life, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for sled dog
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Noun
  • That means if a wolf dog ever bites someone, euthanasia and testing may be required.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Possessing second-generation wolf dogs, defined in California as the offspring of a domestic dog and a half-wolf, half-dog hybrid — with no more than 25% wolf — is legal.
    Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • But the other people who live nearby may not be so easily swayed by those adorable puppy dog eyes or precious purrs and might get very irritated.
    Libby Monteith Minor, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
  • 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).
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Amanda Bryant, herpetologist with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, said hunters surpassed the initial quota of 204 with one additional harvest.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2025
  • And after selling at auction in 2007, the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virgina began offering ghost tours to the public — and got a major boost in 2009, when a team of ghost hunters locked themselves inside for the night to record a live show.
    Jen Rose Smith, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • He was contacted a short distance away, on Orange Avenue, where officers tried to de-escalate the situation, including deploying beanbags and a police dog, Easter said.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Prosecutors previously indicated that while Young was on the ground, surrounded by officers and already shocked multiple times with a Taser, Currie urged Sribniak to deploy his police dog to bite Young.
    Christina Hall, Freep.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Stevens Chan, the subject of the film and a disability rights campaigner alongside his late guide dog LaShawn, struggled to remember Robinson when contacted by Deadline.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Working dogs What’s the difference between a guide dog or service dog and emotional support animals?
    Cody Godwin, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025

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