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basset

[bas-it] / ˈbæs ɪt /


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It’s like telling me you beat your basset hound in tennis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

They are doppelgangers, dead ringers with basset hound eyes a signature feature.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2023

"Then when Freda died my father himself bought another basset hound, the second Freda, and that was how it all started."

From BBC • Jul. 8, 2023

Buddy Holly, a petit basset griffon Vendéen, took the top prize at the Westminster Dog Show.

From New York Times • May 10, 2023

Some days he saw mystery everywhere, in earthworms and holly trees and basset hounds, and the inexplicability of even the simplest life so angered and stupefied him that he almost resented any balancing elucidation.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen