trotter

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Recent Examples of trotter 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 My mom always emphasized the role of food: some dishes, like pork trotters with peanuts or ginger chicken drenched in sesame oil, are said to repair the uterus. Clarissa Wei, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for trotter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trotter
Noun
  • 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
  • The track was briefly placed on probation by the CHRB in 2020 due to a spate of racehorse deaths.
    City News Service, Oc Register, 11 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The Patriots have tried to combat that with some of their pony sets (Stevenson and Henderson sharing the field).
    Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Shortly thereafter, Belichick was seen attending an adult-cheerleading event where Hudson, wearing a high pony and a red scrunchie, was competing.
    Paige Williams, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Osgood Perkins’ Keeper wants to add a few wrinkles to this old warhorse’s mix.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Peeke, a warhorse all night, stepped into it and blasted a slapper that broke through Ullmark and hit the post.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
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
  • The items include bed frames, bedding, pillows, white-noise machines, area rugs, desk chairs, TVs and TV mounts.
    Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2025
  • When staffing dips, the pressure mounts.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The 5-year-old mare Esmeray died from an injury suffered in Del Mar’s fifth race Thursday.
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The $80,000 Swingtime Stakes matches a large field of fillies and mares seeking their first stakes win in 2025.
    Kevin Modesti, Oc Register, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Antelope such as puku, reedbuck, and roan began to return in greater numbers.
    Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2025
  • In 2019, just 19 roan antelopes were estimated to exist in Kenya, according to conservation experts.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • The latter was shipped to the Indianapolis Colts in a deal that brought New York two first-round picks and wide receiver AD Mitchell, whom the colts drafted in the second round in 2024.
    Andrew McCarty, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Tom Welling lives the good life on a horse farm in Northern California with his golden retriever Rosey and colt Apollo.
    Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025

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“Trotter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trotter. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.

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