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Recent Examples of trotter
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.
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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
For this reason, married Taiwanese daughters return home on leap day to cook pig trotter noodles, a dish made with pig's feet, for their parents, which is thought to bring them good fortune and health.
—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 29 Feb. 2024
The Shanghai trotter is a massive hunk of wobbly pork served over a bed of bok choy.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
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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
For this reason, married Taiwanese daughters return home on leap day to cook pig trotter noodles, a dish made with pig's feet, for their parents, which is thought to bring them good fortune and health.
—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 29 Feb. 2024
The Shanghai trotter is a massive hunk of wobbly pork served over a bed of bok choy.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trotter
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This felt like a Miami Heat season looking for a way to end, to be over, to be put out of its misery like a crippled racehorse humanely put down.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
17 Apr. 2025
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Each is a two-hour, full-service affair complete with dedicated waitstaff and a champagne service that flows faster than a racehorse at the starting gate.—
Jordi Lippe-McGraw,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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The irony of that is that viewers know next season won’t be about ponies and rainbows.—
Sandra Gonzalez,
CNN Money,
11 Apr. 2025
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Celebrate the end of Ramadan with halal food vendors, pony rides, a multicultural bazaar and performance from Palestinian rapper MC Abdul.—
Nadia Lopez,
Axios,
3 Apr. 2025
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Ride Giannis Into the Paint—and the Pacers Into the Ground With no Lillard for now, the Bucks’ offensive warhorse is back to full-time duty.—
Brian Sampson,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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The National Symphony Orchestra is planning warhorses by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich and world premieres by Carlos Simon, the Kennedy Center’s composer in residence; Valerie Coleman; and others.—
Javier C. Hernández,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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Osprey Poco Plus Child Carrier for $240 ($80 off) Parent or packhorse?—
Drew Zieff,
Outside Online,
16 July 2024
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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
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There’s that scene with the jujubes and chestnuts in the ceremony and people not knowing which one represents sons and daughters.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
18 Apr. 2025
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My pocket guide said its fruits taste like chestnuts.—
Dina Mishev Max Whittaker,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2025
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There’s also a wireless phone charger in front of the gearstick that doubles as a phone mount to use for navigation.—
Trinity Francis,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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The engine mounts are lighter, the walls of the components thinner, and titanium and Inconcel parts are used, all a bid to shave pounds and ounces.—
Sean Evans,
Robb Report,
17 Apr. 2025
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Any critical observer of rodeos would’ve predicted that mare’s excruciatingly painful death.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Feb. 2025
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There’s no better example of that than in the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Classic, featuring the unbeaten mare Zenyatta.—
Jay Posner,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Mar. 2025
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The trackers plugged in data on a herd of roan antelope, then a single male cheetah.—
ByDimitri Selibas,
science.org,
13 June 2024
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Only eight gray or roan horses have ever won the first leg of the Triple Crown.—
Alexis Cubit,
The Courier-Journal,
2 May 2023
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“Trotter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trotter. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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