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Recent Examples of sled dog
Enjoy a private adventure with your family, a guide, and a pack of happy sled dogs that will transport you back to the golden age of mushing.
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Sara Hansen, Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2026
Balto, the sled dog who helped deliver life-saving medicine across Alaska, lived for eight more years after this scare.
—Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 9 Feb. 2026
Now, six years shy of the 100th anniversary of sled dog racing at the Winter Olympics as a demonstration sport, talk continues to swirl of the sport one day making a return to the Games.
—Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 3 Feb. 2026
The detail here is stunning, down to the leather harnesses on the three sled dogs.
—Via Chronicle Books, Literary Hub, 5 May 2025
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Sara Hansen, Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2026
Balto, the sled dog who helped deliver life-saving medicine across Alaska, lived for eight more years after this scare.
—Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 9 Feb. 2026
Now, six years shy of the 100th anniversary of sled dog racing at the Winter Olympics as a demonstration sport, talk continues to swirl of the sport one day making a return to the Games.
—Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 3 Feb. 2026
The detail here is stunning, down to the leather harnesses on the three sled dogs.
—Via Chronicle Books, Literary Hub, 5 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sled dog
Noun
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Most importantly: Ian finds and adopts Rollo, the greatest wolf dog who ever lived.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2026
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Silver moment of the Games: Everyone loved it when Nazgul, the 2-year-old Czech wolf dog, joined the women’s cross-country competition at the end and ran, without benefit of skis, across the finish line.—
John Cherwa,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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Of course, every good hunter has his faithful hunting dogs, and Orion’s best friends were his big dog, Canis Major, and his little dog, Canis Minor, which are Latin for big and little dog respectively.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
12 Apr. 2026
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Kock maintains the presence of these smart hunters has chased the once dominant great whites further along the coast and insists that overall, the population of great whites in South African waters is stable.—
Michael H Gavshon,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Officers deployed a bean bag and sent a police dog to assist in the arrest.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Apr. 2026
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Hulk, a police dog that took part in an operation in which 48 tons of marijuana were seized, poses in front of packages containing the drug and weapons in Rio de Janeiro on April 8, 2026.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Karyn Cordner’s Raven, a five-year-old black German shepherd with a soft coat of fur, was being trained to become a guide dog by the Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation in Bloomfield when the Simsbury resident first met her.—
Mikayla Bunnell,
Hartford Courant,
11 Apr. 2026
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Researchers at Binghamton University have developed a robotic guide dog system that can talk to users, offering real-time navigation assistance and two-way communication.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Sled dog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sled%20dog. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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