bridle
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But it makes little sense to think a law intended to bridle Wall Street also opened the gates to sports betting, Zaring said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Castro is accused of pulling on the bridle of one horse and grabbing the reins of another as mounted deputies moved toward a crowd of protesters to enforce dispersal orders on June 14.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2025
It includes more than 800 items, including two cauldrons or vessels, horse harness, bridle bits, ceremonial spears and 28 iron tyres, believed to have been buried about 2,000 years ago.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025
His eyes are full of tears as he holds the little riding crop in one hand and the bridle in the other.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2023
It concairned a hand and arm, in samite, with a bridle and a candle in its gripe.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
She refers to Isaac as “Latin-X,” to his disgust, and bridles when Alan casually complains that a student objected when he said a movie was “lame.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
The handlers on the ground let go of the bridles and the cows suddenly shoot forward.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025
Think animal jewelry — bridles, straps and other harness parts adorned with eagle heads, rosettes, griffins, busts of Herakles, serpents and lions, often shaped from gold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025
American freedom is not absolute; no American is free from the Constitution’s bridles.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2024
I glance at the end of the booth and see hookah sets, golden swords, and blown-up black-and-white harem pictures from some previous era propped against, yes, camel bridles.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
Blanche bridled at the suggestion, calling it “the most false statement I have ever heard in my life.”
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2026
Though he bridled against the genteel expectations of his upbringing, he was popular and effortlessly debonair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
About talks with Tata: Welsh government have bridled at suggestions that they refused to take part.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2024
And her son bridled at having to share personal information that Chavez needed in order to apply.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
Like many other Americans, Katherine bridled at the reality of the Russians’ metal moon orbiting overhead.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
Agency for International Development, some African governments are bridling at the conditions he has set for resuming funding to combat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
In her autobiography, Mrs. Robertson recalled bridling at staying at home and her husband’s refusal to help around the house.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2022
European Union privacy and competition regulators have been far more aggressive than their U.S. counterparts in bridling the tech giants.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2021
And so I find myself bridling at the smears that people cast in our direction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2018
Yossarian demanded, rising up slowly on one elbow with bridling hostility.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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