trotter

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Recent Examples of trotter Use a variety of bones like knuckle bones, pig trotters and chicken feet for a better broth. Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025 The news comes hot on the trotters of social media sensation Moo Deng at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand earlier this year. Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 6 Nov. 2024 One Studios International is getting on its trotters through its eye-catchingly titled doc If Pigs Could Talk. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2024 The steaming pigeon and trotter pie at St. John comes to mind, as does a haunch of venison, served on lush spring greens, at the aforementioned Palmerston. Will Hawkes, Saveur, 29 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for trotter
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Noun
  • Purchasing a racehorse often required hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars, along with ongoing training, veterinary, and management expenses.
    Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • The famous real-life 19th-century racehorse Lexington is at the center of this expansive novel that travels fluidly between antebellum South and modern-day Washington, DC.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
Noun
  • Here, a pony ant – most commonly known as a green-head ant (Rhytidoponera metallica), native to Australia, is experiencing the worst day of its life.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 June 2026
  • And, in season 3, rookie Faith Ward was approved to wear a fashion pony.
    Emily Krauser, PEOPLE, 20 June 2026
Noun
  • Strange but true; there could be a little more life in this old warhorse yet.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 June 2026
  • Perhaps most notably, the annual opera program will divert from the Pacific Symphony’s traditional Verdi and Puccini Italian operatic warhorses.
    Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 27 May 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
  • Carter further complicates things in last week’s episode, when he drunkly tears an animal mount off the wall during Oreana’s grandmother’s big party at the 10-Petal Ranch.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2026
  • Cerebras is, however, facing pressure to open more data centers, as are cloud infrastructure providers, while public opposition mounts and permitting processes can drag on.
    Jordan Novet, CNBC, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • One that began with a pregnant mare shot and abandoned in a field, barely alive.
    Nielsen Dinwoodie, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • First, find all your ilmenite-rich regions (which are typically in lunar mare, the dark patches on the moon that signify frozen seas of ancient lava).
    Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • The roan colt is not just recognizable in the starting crush by his distinctive grey coat, looked at head-on, he’s easily seen by his bright royal blue padded noseband and the gold square on the black blinders whose fabric spans his forehead.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • The effort builds on roughly two years of development, during which the company has assembled the ancient bluebuck genome, created a reference genome using the roan antelope, completed comparative genomic analysis, and established foundational cellular and reproductive systems for the species.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • Booted home a length and a quarter to the good by jockey Paco Lopez, this Chad Summers trained gray colt was no doubt the best on Maryland’s biggest day of racing.
    Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • The Preakness features a venue change to a 115-year-old track that has never hosted the event, a field of some of the best 3-year-old colts in the country and a couple of chances to make horse racing history.
    Stephen Whyno, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2026

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“Trotter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trotter. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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