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Recent Examples of working dog
This is how many working dogs think in and out of their respected fields.
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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
State of play: Visitors can explore the Coast Guard Museum Northwest and see exhibits from the Navy League of the United States, Puget Sound Navy Museum and the U.S. Marine Corps, including artillery displays, military working dog demonstrations, pugil stick simulators and Humvee displays.
—Christine Clarridge, Axios, 31 July 2024
The report — which addresses the working conditions of working dogs — somehow escaped our noticed until we were scooped by our friends at USA Facts, a data evangelism and dissemination outfit founded by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
—Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
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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
State of play: Visitors can explore the Coast Guard Museum Northwest and see exhibits from the Navy League of the United States, Puget Sound Navy Museum and the U.S. Marine Corps, including artillery displays, military working dog demonstrations, pugil stick simulators and Humvee displays.
—Christine Clarridge, Axios, 31 July 2024
The report — which addresses the working conditions of working dogs — somehow escaped our noticed until we were scooped by our friends at USA Facts, a data evangelism and dissemination outfit founded by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
—Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for working dog
Noun
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Stevens Chan, the subject of the film and a disability rights campaigner alongside his late guide dog LaShawn, struggled to remember Robinson when contacted by Deadline.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
25 Sep. 2025
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Working dogs What’s the difference between a guide dog or service dog and emotional support animals?—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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He was contacted a short distance away, on Orange Avenue, where officers tried to de-escalate the situation, including deploying beanbags and a police dog, Easter said.—
Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Sep. 2025
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Prosecutors previously indicated that while Young was on the ground, surrounded by officers and already shocked multiple times with a Taser, Currie urged Sribniak to deploy his police dog to bite Young.—
Christina Hall,
Freep.com,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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,
6 Aug. 2025
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Counteracting that are the touching scenes where the trio bond with and care for sled dogs (rambunctious Billy is my favorite) at the school.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
1 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Possessing second-generation wolf dogs, defined in California as the offspring of a domestic dog and a half-wolf, half-dog hybrid — with no more than 25% wolf — is legal.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacramento Bee,
27 Jan. 2025
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Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary in New Mexico named the six wolf dogs after characters created by fantasy author Sarah J. Maas Six wolfdogs are spending their holiday season enjoying a winter wonderland after being kept as pets.—
Kelli Bender,
Peoplemag,
15 Dec. 2023
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But the other people who live nearby may not be so easily swayed by those adorable puppy dog eyes or precious purrs and might get very irritated.—
Libby Monteith Minor,
Southern Living,
4 Oct. 2025
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The sorrowful puppy dog eyes were all because the owner’s tuxedo cat was curled up among the blankets in Rocky’s crate (despite having a bed of his own).—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Working dog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/working%20dog. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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