working dog

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for working dog
Recent Examples of Synonyms for working dog
Noun
  • Karyn Cordner’s Raven, a five-year-old black German shepherd with a soft coat of fur, was being trained to become a guide dog by the Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation in Bloomfield when the Simsbury resident first met her.
    Mikayla Bunnell, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Researchers at Binghamton University have developed a robotic guide dog system that can talk to users, offering real-time navigation assistance and two-way communication.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Hulk, a police dog that took part in an operation in which 48 tons of marijuana were seized, poses in front of packages containing the drug and weapons in Rio de Janeiro on April 8, 2026.
    CBS News, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Conley had a police dog brought in, which revealed the presence of narcotics.
    Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Most importantly: Ian finds and adopts Rollo, the greatest wolf dog who ever lived.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • William Tong thought a puppy dog would be innocuous.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2026
  • 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 16 Apr. 2026.

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