bulldog
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It’s her fourth time participating, and last year she secured second place, losing to a 2-year-old hairless Frenchie and English bulldog mix named Petunia who had been rescued from a backyard breeder in Las Vegas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
At the time, Ibrahimovic had an English bulldog who could handle going downhill, but struggled going the other way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
They told the landlord they had one French bulldog, despite owning a micro bully and two XL bullies, a breed banned in 2024.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
Boasberg appears well aware of Trump’s bulldog approach on social media.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
The logo was a cartoon of this giant bodybuilding bulldog wearing wraparound sunglasses and smoking a cigar and flexing his muscles.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
“We’ve seen it in Dalmatians when ‘101 Dalmatians’ came out, or retrievers when ‘Marley & Me’ came out, or French bulldogs when Lady Gaga got her French bulldog” in 2014, said Munden.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
“Due to the unique anatomy of their airways, bulldogs can experience more respiratory distress in their golden years and may also have a harder time regulating their temperature as a result,” Greenstein says.
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
For example, the likes of pugs, Frenchies and English bulldogs all have issues with their breathing because of their squashed facial features and Scottish Fold cats suffer a lot from arthritis.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
Other popular members of this snub-nosed club include English bulldogs, Boston terriers, pugs and Brussels griffons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
They saw golf carts with balloons, motorcycles with streamers, three French bulldogs wearing flag bandanas, and a candy-apple-red convertible with Miss Gingerbread Island waving at the crowd.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
Next day one was still at large in the countryside; the other was bulldogged after he darted into a ball game, tossed two would-be captors, and tried to gore an automobile.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Federal Board took its cues from the State but the final decision on the status of any lot of oil actually rested on a bulldogged, stone-steady gentleman named Captain E. N. Stanley.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hughes's bulldogged determination could make things interesting at the end.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rozier is a brute with guile, whose balance is such that he seems to be bulldogged off the field more often than he is tumbled off his feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
With my three little traps and a bulldogged determination, I set out to trap Mister Ringtail.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
In Fort Worth, celebrations included the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo, named for the Black cowboy who is credited with introducing bulldogging, or steer wrestling.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2022
Fort Collins, for instance, was supposed to have goat roping, steer bulldogging competitions, a shooting exhibition from the U.S.
From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2021
William “Bill” Pickett was a famous rodeo star credited with founding the sport bulldogging, also known as steer wrestling.
From Fox News ● Jul. 3, 2020
“Some guys just have a knack of bulldogging their way through an inning, you know?”
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2014
Mr. Huxley stopped in a few times while they were there, to take breaks from his bulldogging and to get more direction and advice from Charles.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
