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Recent Examples of working dog
This happens if a dog doesn’t make it through training to become a working dog or when the dog retires.
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Cody Godwin, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
The Great Pyrenees is a large, thickly-coated, and immensely powerful working dog originally bred to guard livestock on the snowy peaks of the Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
These puppies, believed to be a collie-working dog crossbreed, were left in the park, posing a threat to the local wildlife.
—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
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Cody Godwin, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
The Great Pyrenees is a large, thickly-coated, and immensely powerful working dog originally bred to guard livestock on the snowy peaks of the Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
These puppies, believed to be a collie-working dog crossbreed, were left in the park, posing a threat to the local wildlife.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for working dog
Noun
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More than 100 puppies and 150 volunteers descended on Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport on April 19 for an annual guide dog training program.—
Samantha Agate,
Miami Herald,
22 Apr. 2026
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Michelle Barlak, a Seeing Eye spokesperson, pointed to a growing concern in the guide dog community.—
Samantha Agate,
Kansas City Star,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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When authorities swept the Macon airport ahead of Raffensperger's arrival Tuesday, a police dog found a suspicious object that prompted an evacuation.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 May 2026
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During the search, the police dog bit a Sacramento officer.—
Nicole Buss,
Sacbee.com,
13 May 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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The grueling sled dog race covers about 1,000 miles in the Alaska wilderness.—
Daniel Wine,
CNN Money,
18 Mar. 2026
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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Cassie is trying to become social-media famous, suggestively flashing her all-American assets online in a variety of fetishy costumes (a puppy dog, a pacifier-sucking baby).—
Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2026
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Unlike the children, who look like waxy versions of my own, this is my husband, with the soft face and the plaid shirt and the puppy dog— Eyes.—
Glamour,
Glamour,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Working dog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working%20dog. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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