dog
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Hundreds of people desperate for news about the incident have taken to leaving comments on the Facebook page of a local mayor, searching for relatives, friends and even a dog.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
In 2023, he brought a dog named Win into the training ground to boost morale, saying that it was used to represent the team as a family.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
"The scientists told us if a dog ran through a puddle the dog could die because of the levels of the chemicals in the soil," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
The cases taken by these seat-of-the-pants sleuths are not always cloak-and-dagger—a potential client of their fledgling detective agency commends them at one point for having found someone else’s lost dog.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
I take a step back and bump into the dog, who lurches away and disappears around the corner of the building.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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P-22 was showing increasing “signs of stress,” including three attacks on dogs within a month and near-encounters with people in Los Feliz and Silver Lake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
According to Forbes, the couple’s dog is a female Samoyed, a breed the American Kennel Club describes as “smart, social, mischievous dogs who demand love and attention.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
"But, as long as the machine that learns how the dogs react to the sample is very consistent... we don't really mind."
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
The cars used are modified Maxda MX5s with dual controls with names like Stanton and Baxter, a nod to some of the guide dogs which have lived with Mike over the years.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
“So, you aren’t interested in dogs at all.”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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In a horror movie pastiche, Mendoza is dogged by middle-aged white men compelled to tell him that their wife is Asian, which does sound like something from personal experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Lobbying remains dogged by a reputation as a shadowy trade.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
And in the time since, LIV continued to face the problem that dogged the league from the outset: It failed to latch on with fans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
While artificial-intelligence disruption fears have dogged the sector this year, investors seem to be coming around to the view that some software-as-a-service companies will hold up better than others in the AI era.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Though lingering rumors dogged him, Bell was never charged.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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It took one look for people to start dogging the company out for its unreadability.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Morrow told the judge Thursday he didn’t believe his clients’ cases should be scrutinized solely because of the allegations dogging his firm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
One consequence: Xi has so far shrugged off signs that China needs to boost consumption to fight persistent deflation that is dogging the economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Another question dogging Nvidia has been whether it will lose its dominance as companies shift from training AI models toward inference—the process of running the models.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
That stirred-up ugly feeling of not being able to do nothing came back, dogging me all the way home.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
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