cloven
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Foot and mouth disease is a highly contagious virus that affects cloven hooved animals.
From Reuters • Jul. 20, 2022
The name of a police officer who supposedly investigated the cloven footprints in the snow was made up.
From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2021
In his short story “Ordeal by Golf,” the narrator declares, “In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.”
From The New Yorker • Apr. 3, 2019
“Its cats. Its pale sky. The empty sky of morning, drained and pure. Its deep, cloven streets. Its narrow courts, the faint, rotten odor within, orange peels lying in the corners.”
From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2018
“And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate/To act her earthy and abhorr’d commands ... /she did confine thee. . . into a cloven pine—” he whispered, and Meg recognized Mrs Who’s words to him.
From "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
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The Lightning Thief
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