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Recent Examples of working dog
These puppies, believed to be a collie-working dog crossbreed, were left in the park, posing a threat to the local wildlife.
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Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
Maple’s new role demonstrates how specialized detection skills can be adapted to protect critical pollinators, and how a working dog’s career can take a second life, for the benefit of both bees and beekeepers.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2025
This is how many working dogs think in and out of their respected fields.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
The course is taught only three times a year with ten military working dog teams.
—Escher Walcott, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
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Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
Maple’s new role demonstrates how specialized detection skills can be adapted to protect critical pollinators, and how a working dog’s career can take a second life, for the benefit of both bees and beekeepers.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2025
This is how many working dogs think in and out of their respected fields.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
The course is taught only three times a year with ten military working dog teams.
—Escher Walcott, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for working dog
Noun
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The onboard disagreement escalated as other passengers also sought to use the underseat space reserved for the guide dog, raising questions about enforcing service animal rules on commercial flights.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
20 Mar. 2026
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At every rehearsal, Eliza's guide dog Zynga watches the action.—
David Wade,
CBS News,
3 Mar. 2026
Noun
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West Sacramento officers then called in a police dog and used less-lethal weapons to take the man into custody.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
27 Mar. 2026
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While Amiri liked to unleash his police dog, Purcy, on people, Rombough favored a 40 mm launcher, authorities said.—
Aldo Toledo,
San Francisco Chronicle,
24 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Jessie Holmes and his team of sled dogs successfully defended their Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race title this week, becoming the first musher to accomplish the feat in a decade.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
19 Mar. 2026
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Her favorite pieces she’s written for Outside are about competing on the Discovery show Naked and Afraid, being a woman alone in the woods, learning to write, and mischievous sled dog Blowhole.—
Blair Braverman,
Outside,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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
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Former Rhode Islander stepped up to adopt wolf dog That's when former Rhode Island resident Ron Monroe stepped in.—
Jack Perry,
The Providence Journal,
29 Jan. 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
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“Working dog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working%20dog. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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